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.