On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 16:21, Dominic Hopf via Users <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Does the flatpack work with the plugins? (which was where we started). Cheers Lex > > 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. 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