Bug#933450: fityk: Please rebuild against wxWidgets GTK 3 package

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Thu Aug 8 00:57:42 BST 2019


On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:13:34AM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> Unfortunately, fityk does not yet appear to be ready to make that switch, with 
> the following in included in the code:
> 
> https://github.com/wojdyr/fityk/blob/master/wxgui/app.cpp#L11
> 
> #ifdef __WXGTK3__
> #error "Not everything is working with wxGTK3. Use default wxGTK instead, " \
>        "based on GTK+2. If you want to test it, just remove this #error."
> #endif
> 
> I have tried running fityk with wxGTK3 but haven't yet worked out what works 
> and what does not. I'll write to upstream to seek advice.

git blame shows that check was added 5 years ago:

https://github.com/wojdyr/fityk/blame/master/wxgui/app.cpp#L11

There have been a lot of GTK3-related fixes in wxGTK since then so I'd
expect it to work much better now.

Cheers,
    Olly



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