configure missing and autogen.sh fails

[hg2581]

According to the instructions I should be able to run either ./configure or ./autogen.sh, however, configure file is missing and autogen.sh fails because "macro AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT not found in library".

Should the ./configure file exist or should the instructions be corrected? I assume autogen.sh fails because of missing dependencies? Can they be pulled in automatically?

[b4n]

The configure is not supposed to exist in the Git tree, only in tarballs. Git trees require you to run autogen.sh. To generate it properly you need GLib's development files.

[hg2581]

I used yum to install glib-devel which I think is the Centos/RHEL version of Glib's development files. Even so, running ./autogen.sh in the geany-plugin directory failed with the exact same error message as below. Did I misunderstand what I need to do?

[frlan]

Google told me something like glib2-devel -- give it a try.

[b4n]

also you'll need gettext and others, but it shouldn't be the reason here. Anyway, a Fedora .spec file suggests you need glib2-devel, gtk2-devel, pango-devel, gettext and intltool.

[hg2581]

Thank you, have installed all of the above. Now I get as far as:
"checking for GEANY... configure: error: Package requirements (geany >= 1.26) were not met:
No package 'geany' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEANY_CFLAGS
and GEANY_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details."
Version 1.26 of geany is indeed installed and PKG_CONFIG_PATH is empty.

[hg2581]

I should have mentioned that geany is installed in /usr/bin/geany and can be found in the path.

[frlan]

Are there also the dev-files of Geany installed?

[hg2581]

I have the geany-libgeany-1.26 package installed. Are you thinking of another package?

[frlan]

If you are using geany-plugins from current git repo it depends on Geany 1.27. You will need to install geany 1.27 too (not yet release) or use geany-plugins 1.26

[b4n]

@hg2581 what does pkg-config --modversion geany tells you? and if it says it doesn't find any packages like this, check whether you have a file named geany.pc somewhere, likely in /usr/lib/pkgconfig or /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. If you don't have this file anywhere on your system, then the development files for Geany aren't properly installed.

BTW, I could imagine your distro having something like geany-devel, geany-libgeany-1.26-devel or alike, in which case you should install it to get the appropriate development files.

[b4n]

But @frlan in right, if you want to build the development version of Geany-Plugins, you'll need the development version of Geany for several of them.

[hg2581]

autogen.sh from github tests for geany version 1.26, not for version 1.27.

[hg2581]

Yes, I used the git source, now I downloaded the plugins version 1.26 and tried to run ./configure but encountered the same error message. pkg-config --modversion geany tells me:
"Package geany was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `geany.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'geany' found"
I then looked for geany.pc but it is not on the system. Unfortunately "yum install geany-devel" finds version 1.24 in EPEL but I have version 1.26 of geany installed from melvilletheatre.
Next step: where do I find the development files for geany 1.26 and what do I need to do?
And, could we get the current version of geany and associated files into EPEL?
Thank you for your help!

[frlan]

On 04.03.2016 21:45, hg2581 wrote:

autogen.sh from github tests for geany version 1.26, not for version 1.27.

Actually this is true. But most liekly will not work.

[frlan]

Well... either ask your distributor to package a newer version of Geany or install your complete Geany stack from source and don't depend on Centos packages. You can download the latest stable versions from geany.org or do a git clone for most recent development version from https://github.com/geany/geany

[hg2581]

How do I get any missing development files for geany? I have already installed gtk2-devel and intltool mentioned on http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/howto.html.

Apparently geany.pc is missing?

[b4n]

geany.pc is installed by Geany. If you built Geany from source, it'll likely be installed to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. If your system doesn't use this path for looking up pkg-config files by default, alter the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable before running Geany-Plugin's configure script:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH", then ./configure. It should also allow pkg-config --modversion geany to find Geany and show you the installed version number.

[codebrainz]

Also use the weird --with-geany-libdir=/the/prefix/lib option to Geany-Plugins' configure script, I think it might affect the pkg-config lookup path.

[bbrady1992]

I know this is closed, but just in case somebody else runs into this issue - I installed geany-devel and it fixed the issue.

[chaotaklon]

bbrady1992's answer works for me.

In Centos,
$ sudo yum install geany-devel

solves:
"checking for GEANY... configure: error: Package requirements (geany >= 1.26) were not met:
No package 'geany' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEANY_CFLAGS
and GEANY_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details."