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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a branch packages can use to make sure their lemon integration is
working?

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 4:00 PM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Two new build-time dependencies are being added to the master branch for
> v6:
> * lemon - The lemon parser generator
> * GTK3 (linux only) - the GTK3 libraries (only GTK3, not GTK2 - that is
> not supported anymore). This is technically also a runtime dependency, but
> we also need GTK3 for wxWidgets, so it shouldn't be a new runtime dep (only
> needing the build headers are new).
>
> The lemon parser is needed to fix
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/5013 by changing how the
> files are generated (in MR
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/318). GTK3 is needed
> to enable new functionality inside the platform-specific KIPLATFORM library
> for Linux (such as overriding menu settings, moving files to trash, etc.)
>
> All developers should make sure they have these new dependencies
> installed, and nightly builds should add them to their build script (Steve,
> thanks for updating Fedora's so quick!) I have opened issue on GitLab for
> the builders on there:
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-win-builder/-/issues/101
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-mac-builder/-/issues/332
>
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-ubuntu-builder/kicad-daily-package/-/issues/2
>
> I haven't merged any code into master that needs them yet, but I would
> like to merge the lemon fix as soon as possible (the problem it is solving
> has attracted increased attention it seems).
>
> -Ian
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