On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 17:06, Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know, as I did not build the flatpak nor use it myself.
Seems like flathub doesn't list who maintains it, AFAICT, so could be anybody, competence unknown. IIRC kugel- identified some issues relating to flatpacking Geany, not sure if thats solved or not. > The flatpak would need to bundle the plugins, of course (as flatpaks bundle > everything else as well). Ok, thats not the flathub one AFAICT. > I guess that still needs to be tested as well as if it was possible to > install flatpaks on CentOS 7 at all. Google says its possible https://flatpak.org/setup/CentOS ... in fact built-in. Cheers Lex > > Regards, > Dominic > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:56 AM Lex Trotman via Users <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 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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