Also, you did not come back to my point on installing a flatpak instead. If it was possible for you to follow instructions like e.g. these ones that would be great:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-flatpak-on-centos Regards, Dominic On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:16 AM Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> wrote: > So I don't have any CentOS 7 system up and running somewhere. Can you > check if this ominous Red Hat Developer Toolset can be found on your CentOS > 7 machine and what the package name is? > If so, that still doesn't have to mean that the build servers in the > Fedora infrastructure responsible for building EPEL packages have the same > package available, but I can try, at least. > > Regards, > Dominic > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:57 AM H via Users <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 06/20/2023 08:29 PM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote: >> > On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 09:14, H via Users <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On 06/20/2023 04:10 AM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote: >> >>> I accidently took us off list, added us back. >> >>> >> >>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 23:11, Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>> So I did a quick try to build Geany 1.38 for EPEL7, right now the >> problem is that `./configure` already fails with this message: >> >>>> >> >>>> configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language >> features is required. >> >>>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build) >> >>>> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build) >> >>>> >> >>> Ok, thats not one that is fixable in a practical sense, Scintilla >> >>> versions after the 3.x.x stable versions do require C++17, and the >> >>> changes between the old version and the new versions (two major >> >>> versions after all) have too many changes to be practical to support >> >>> both. >> >>> >> >>>> I'm afraid this is not possible to build without immense effort >> unless anyone else has an idea? >> >>>> Does one of you guys know if it's possible to install flatpaks on >> CentOS 7? Probably that could be an idea then? >> >>>> >> >>> Well, I guess Flatsnaps, dockers or other containerised mechanisms >> >>> would maybe allow for a newer C++ compiler to build against a newer >> >>> runtime. Docker is used to do the Windows cross compiles and CI now. >> >>> Would need to run in the container too so the newer C++ runtime >> >>> library was available I guess. But I am no container expert. >> >>> >> >>> Cheers >> >>> Lex >> >>> >> >>>> Regards, >> >>>> Dominic >> >>>> >> >>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 12:36 PM Lex Trotman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 19:10, Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>>>> No need to ask in the RedHat Bugzilla at all as I'm reading here >> as well. ;) >> >>>>>> I remember there were issues building Geany 1.38 for CentOS 7, but >> I don't remember what issues that was in detail, though. >> >>>>>> I'll retry as soon as I can and will let you know. Either I can >> tell you what the issue is or probably there will be an update. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> Thank you, if its a dependency thats too olde I guess there won't be >> >>>>> much we can do, but its good to know what the problem is. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Cheers >> >>>>> Lex >> >>>>> >> >>>>>> Regards, >> >>>>>> Dominic >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:09 AM Lex Trotman via Users < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>>>>> Lex, is there anything I can do if you want to look into this? I >> would love to have 1.38 - and hopefully 1.39 - available for CentOS 7. >> >>>>>>> You could ask on Centos bugzilla what the problem was. >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> I don't want to sound negative, so lets call it being pragmatic >> ;-P >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Centos 7 has one year of maintenance updates left, IIUC >> maintenance >> >>>>>>> updates mean security and bugfixes, no new versions, so 1.38 or >> 1.39 >> >>>>>>> doesn't seem likely to happen. >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> We try to keep Geany git working on Ubuntu LTS (that is what >> Github CI >> >>>>>>> uses) but no guarantees on older things and without any info about >> >>>>>>> what failed we can't do much. >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Cheers >> >>>>>>> Lex >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >> >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >> >>>>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >> >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> But does not Red Hat Developer Toolset 10.x support C/C++17? See >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_toolset/12/html-single/user_guide/index#sect-GCC-CPP-Compatibility. >> Although I myself have an earlier version of the Developer Toolset >> installed on my own computer, it seems that the latest release, Developer >> Toolset 12 even supports C/C++20? >> > "Red Hat Developer Toolset is a Red Hat offering for developers on the >> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform." so is it available for Centos 7, >> > and is it supported to build software for the Centos 7 repository? >> > >> > Cheers >> > Lex >> > >> >> If my reading is correct, it would seem the compiler requirement can >> be met? >> Yes, I have been using an earlier version on my CentOS 7 system. CentOS >> and RHEL are ABI compatible. The same repositories are used for software to >> be downloaded. >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >
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