Re: [be] compile issues

[Teus Benschop]

Hi Lance,

No problem about the extra work.

I think that it now works to compile and install Bibledit-Gtk on 
openSUSE 12.2. It is compiling now in a virtual machine.

The link with information is here:

https://sites.google.com/site/bibledit/gtk/installation/opensuse/bibledit-4-6-on-opensuse-12-2

Hope it works for you,

In Christ,

Teus.

On 01/25/2013 08:43 PM, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
> OK brother, sorry to give you more work--that was not my intent.  But as you 
> said, apparently it's time to progress.
>
>
> Christ's blessings,
> Lance
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> On 01/25/2013 11:45 AM, Teus Benschop wrote:
> > Hi Lance,
> >
> > I tried to compile gtkhtml3 on Suse 12.2, but did not succeed.
> >
> > Threre is also the issue that libgtkhtml is being phased out.
> > https://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/GtkHtml
> >
> > Therefore it is time to update bibledit-gtk so that it no longer depends on 
> > software that is going to be phased out.
> >
> > I'll try to make it use libgtkhtml4 in the meantime before porting it to WebKit.
> >
> > Teus.
> >
> >
> > On 01/23/2013 06:44 AM, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm an end-user, not a developer.  Trying to install Bibledit on something more 
> > > current & reliable than Debian or Ubuntu have been lately.
> > >
> > > There seems to be no package for Bibledit in most of the Distributions that 
> > > have worked well for me (Arch or Suse); so I'm trying to compile it.  Other 
> > > than having very little idea of what I'm doing, I'm getting the following error 
> > > from OpenSuse:
> > > configure: error: libgtkhtml3 development version >= 3.8.0 is needed.
> > >
> > > I installed libgtkhtml-dev, but the current versions are well into 4.x, not 
> > > 3.x.  Is that my problem, is the source code calling for an older version?  If 
> > > so, I suspect this was the same problem I was having with Arch Linux last week.
> > >
> > >
> > > If version 4.4.x will work, how do we get the compiler to stop insisting on the older 
> > > "3" version?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lance
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 01/15/2013 12:41 PM, Teus Benschop wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > If the libgtkhtml3 library is not available in the Linux distribution, the only 
> > > > option is to try to compile this library from source. The sources are available 
> > > > from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkhtml/. Hope all goes well, and 
> > > > you'll happily be running bibledit-gtk soon.
> > > >
> > > > Teus.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 01/15/2013 08:21 PM, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to move from an Ubuntu system to an Arch based system (Manjaro).  
> > > > > Manjaro seems faster & more stable, with very little extra assistance needed.
> > > > >
> > > > > Problem is there are no Bibledit binaries there, but more seriously, I can't 
> > > > > seem to compile it as libgtkhtml3 apparently does not exist in Arch.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions?