Glib-2.22 (Not glib2).

cwizardone · 03-29-2012, 02:50 PM

Business has been slow, so today's project was to build the most recent version of Midori. The build fail as it is looking for glib-2.22 (or newer). The version included in Slackware64 13.37 and -current is, 1.2.10.
I've spent over an hour on the 'Net looking for a package, but haven't found one.
Went looking for a SlackBuild, but it doesn't exist.
I've tried Slacky and a few other places. No joy.

Anyone know where a package or script might be found?
Many Thanks. Greatly appreciated.

(BTW, it was also looking for libsoup-4.0, but I didn't know that version existed, and it doesn't appear to be a "do or die" requirement.)

55020 · 03-29-2012, 03:09 PM

Well, the Slackware package you are looking for is actually named glib2 and in both -13.37 and -current it is version 2.28.6. Obviously this is much newer than 2.22. Therefore, Midori's build-time detection of the installed version of glib2 is broken. If Midori is using cmake to build, I do seem to remember (from other packages: e.g. darktable, IIRC) that cmake's detection of glib2 was broken (possibly on x86_64 only). I might be able to find a patch somewhere...

EDIT: Here ya go ;-) it's one of the things I fix in my darktable patch at SBo... look in the midori source for the file cmake/modules/FindGlib.cmake, and change PATH_SUFFIXES, "lib/" should actually be "lib${LIB_SUFFIX}/" (in two places).

Code:

--- darktable-0.9.2//cmake/modules/FindGlib.cmake	2011-08-29 21:55:53.743097178 +0100
+++ darktable-0.9.2-patched//cmake/modules/FindGlib.cmake	2011-08-29 21:55:09.927007977 +0100
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 find_path(GlibConfig_INCLUDE_DIR
   NAMES glibconfig.h
   PATHS ${Glib_PKGCONF_INCLUDE_DIRS} /usr
-  PATH_SUFFIXES lib/glib-2.0/include ../lib/glib-2.0/include
+  PATH_SUFFIXES lib${LIB_SUFFIX}/glib-2.0/include ../lib${LIB_SUFFIX}/glib-2.0/include
 )
 
 # Finally the library itself

trillobyte · 03-29-2012, 04:11 PM

I am somewhat confused. I was able to build the latest version without any patches. As I stated in this thread, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...estion-934315/

I built it with the slackbuild from slackbuilds.org, but I downloaded the tar file from http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mid...bf9914346b7ee0.

The difference as I see it is, your running current and I'm on stable. Also, I'm running webkitgtk as opposed to just plain old webkit.

cwizardone · 03-29-2012, 04:31 PM

well, I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time, but from what I've read, Glib and Glib2 appear to be two different things.
Found the latest source code, glib-2.32.0.tar.xz, at gtk.org.
Went to compile it and it needed, libffi.
Found a script for that at SlackBuilds and ran and installed the package.
Tried to compile it again, and came up with this error,

Quote:

gresource-tool.c:34:20: fatal error: libelf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [gresource-tool.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/storage/software/glib-2.32.0/gio'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/storage/software/glib-2.32.0/gio'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/storage/software/glib-2.32.0/gio'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/storage/software/glib-2.32.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Yes, trilobyte, I remember the thread. I like Midori, but it hardly seems worth the effort, but each to their own.

cwizardone · 03-29-2012, 05:08 PM

55020,
Many thanks!
I'm searching through the code now.

55020 · 04-09-2012, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Tried to compile it again, and came up with this error,

Code:

gresource-tool.c:34:20: fatal error: libelf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

For the record:

glib2-2.30.3 builds fine without this problem.

glib2-2.32.0 produces this error because it does not use the cflags in Slackware's libelf.pc file. You can fix it by adding -I/usr/include/libelf to the CFLAGS in Pat's SlackBuild, i.e.

Code:

CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS -I/usr/include/libelf" \
./configure \

cwizardone · 04-09-2012, 11:16 PM

Many Thanks!

cwizardone · 04-17-2012, 09:53 AM

Update:
I was able to find and configure (./configure), build (make) and install (make install) glib-2.32.1.
Once done Midori 0.4.3 built perfectly using the SlackBuild script. With that success as encouragement

I edited the SlackBuild script and built Midori 0.4.5. However, Midori 0.4.5 requires Vala 0.14 or newer. Once Vala was upgraded, the build then went flawlessly.

55020, thank you for all your help!