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Issues preventing the installation of GPA

Hello. I attempted to install GPA v. 0.11.0; I know that it is that version from the downloaded file name, which is correlated at https://gnupg.org/download/index.html.

note: In this regard the content at https://gnupg.org/software/gpa/index.html is missing an update, as demonstrated by the latest addition "Changes in version 0.10.0 (2018-10-16)".

Installed on my system

Fedora Linux. Each component printed with the name of the RPM source package it comes from.

$ dnf5 repoquery --installed --queryformat '%{arch} | %{name} v. %{version} | %{source_name}\n%{summary}\n\n' gcc gtk3 {gtk+,gpgme}{,-devel} abseil-cpp

x86_64 | abseil-cpp v. 20240722.1 | abseil-cpp
C++ Common Libraries

x86_64 | gcc v. 15.2.1 | gcc
Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, ...)

x86_64 | gpgme v. 1.24.3 | gpgme
GnuPG Made Easy - high level crypto API

x86_64 | gpgme-devel v. 1.24.3 | gpgme
Development headers and libraries for gpgme

x86_64 | gtk+ v. 1.2.10 | gtk+
The GIMP ToolKit

x86_64 | gtk+-devel v. 1.2.10 | gtk+
Development tools for GTK+ (GIMP ToolKit) applications

x86_64 | gtk3 v. 3.24.49 | gtk3
GTK+ graphical user interface library

Configuration script run

$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking whether _XOPEN_SOURCE should be defined... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for compress in -lz... yes
checking for strsep... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for windres... no
checking whether to build the card manager... yes
checking whether to include keyserver support... yes
checking for gpg2keys_ldap... no
checking for gpgkeys_ldap... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyPreferredLanguages... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for gtk+-3.0... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-3.0) were not met:

Package 'gtk+-3.0' not 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 GTK_CFLAGS
and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Issues

  • "checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... (cached) none needed"

"none needed" | Just like that!

https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/c-status.html#c23 | C standards support

GCC is up to date on my system and with good reason. It then has support for ISO C23, the 2023 revision of the ISO C standard published in 2024. C23 mode is the default since GCC v. 15.

And here we have this product that nicely wants an obsolete component being installed -ISO C11, the 2011 revision of the ISO C standard. That might be good for a museum operating system. What about a non-museum operating system? It would be good to have code compatible with it. Unless there is little or no point in making this product attractive to a wider Linux/BSD user community.

  • "checking for library containing strerror... none required"

"none" | there is such one installed.

$ dnf5 repoquery --installed --whatprovides /usr/lib64/libabsl_strerror.so.2407.0.0 --queryformat '%{name}\n'
abseil-cpp
  • "checking for gtk+-3.0... no"

"no" | Failing indeed to locate the correct package since searching against a name that does not exist. Unless there is motivation for it "gtk3" is the name to search against! Only then should a GTK+ GUI library be found and detected as installed.

Details

Version
0.11.0

Event Timeline

Your first two issues are no issues. This is just usual output from a configure run.

For the third I guess you need to install the libgtk-3-dev package (Debian; but Fedora should have a similar named package).

"libgtk-3-dev" |

There was

"x86_64 | gtk3 v. 3.24.49 | gtk3
GTK+ graphical user interface library",

and

"-devel" in ending package names.

So "gtk3-devel" - I too guessing. And such a package exits!

As for the strings I presented as issues that you claim are not, they will undoubtedly remain unresolved, based on my reading of other tickets you've dealt with. You had every opportunity to demonstrate whether here or in the README and INSTALL files your willingness to contribute to the use of this software.

Nothing then—so be it.

werner claimed this task.
werner edited projects, added Not A Bug, Fedora; removed Bug Report.

Sorry, I don't know Fedora packaging details. Please ask on gnupg-users for help if you want to build gpa yourself on that platform. This bug report is only read by very few people but on gnupg-users you can get the attention of several thousand users and developers.

Let me also repeat: What you reported as errors are no errors but the result of tests to determine capabilities of your platform.