[sylpheed:36891] Re: Trouble compiling Sylpheed 3.7.0

[Andreas Ronnquist]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:39:32 -0600,
Craig<freecycle01 at pisquared.net> wrote:

>I must have changed a setting in my Sylpheed, because I am now getting
>messages there is a new version when I start Sylpheed on my computer
>(I'm using 3.5.0).
>
>So, I decided I would update it.
>
>I downloaded the source code's .bz2 file from
>https://osdn.net/projects/sylpheed/downloads/68999/sylpheed-3.7.0.tar.bz2/
>extracted the files, and started to compile it.
>
>  CC       notificationwindow.o
>  CCLD     sylpheed
>compose.o: In function `compose_signature_menu_create':
>/home/software/Email/sylpheed-3.7.0/src/compose.c:6223: undefined
>reference to `gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text' collect2: ld returned 1 exit
>status make[4]: *** [sylpheed] Error 1
>
>Does anyone have an idea about what causes this?
>
>Could this be related to my trying to compile on my CentOS 5.11 system
>with:
>
>gtk+-1.2.10-57.el5
>gtk+-devel-1.2.10-57.el5
>gtk+extra-2.1.1-6.el5
>gtk+extra-devel-2.1.1-6.el5
>gtk2-2.10.4-30.el5
>gtk2-devel-2.10.4-30.el5

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-set-tooltip-text

says that gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text is available since 2.12, while you
seem to use gtk2 2.10.4.

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