Hi Gary!
On Di, 08 Sep 2015, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2015-09-08, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> > Can you install a newer version of the libpango library?
>
> It looks like Bram has fixed this with 7.4 861. I'll wait a bit for
> the patch to propagate to the hg mirror, then update and rebuild.
>
> Your question deserves an answer anyway.
>
> I maintain Vim on a number of systems that don't have the latest
> pango libraries among their packages. For example, at work we
> recently upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 17. The Fedora 17 pango
> packages use version 1.30.0. The patch in question needs at least
> version 1.32.0 (from 2012). The only way I could update pango would
> be to get the source and hope Fedora 17 has the necessary
> dependencies. I've done that with other libraries. At best it's a
> pain. At worst it's infeasible.
>
> It's great if you can run a system that has the latest and greatest
> versions of everything, but not all of us can on all our systems.
I can understand that. This was more meant like a workaround until this
gets fixed.
I do not understand the autoconf black magic, so I would not know how to
fix this, but I see Bram has already fixed that.
Best,
Christian
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