Add support for older GTK+ and GLib versions (e.g. the ones shipped by Ubuntu 14.04)

[trappedinspacetime]

Hi;
First of all thank you for developing such an application. I am on Ubuntu 14.04.5 platform. I downloaded 14.04 zip version of your project. After running ./autogen.sh and then ./configure I get

  checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
  checking whether build environment is sane... yes
  checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
  checking for gawk... gawk
  checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
  checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
  checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
  ./configure: line 2877: syntax error near unexpected token `IT_PROG_INTLTOOL'
  ./configure: line 2877: `AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED(IT_PROG_INTLTOOL)'

I also checked out https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4lwo5n/fsearch_a_new_file_search_application_based_on/ and #3

but the tips in those links didn't help.

I installed gnome-common and autoconf-archive.

I hope you help me fix it.

Regards.

Kenn

[cboxdoerfer]

Did you install the build requirements listed here?

Edit: Oh, just saw that you are using Ubuntu 14.04. It's not supported right now, because its GLib and GTK+ libraries are too. FSearch requires GTK+ 3.12 and GLib 2.44.

[trappedinspacetime]

@cboxdoerfer Thank you for responding. I downloaded the one tagged ubuntu 14.04 in branch section.
I already tried master branch beforehand and I noticed GTK+ 3.12 dependency during ./configure process

[cboxdoerfer]

The Ubuntu 14.04 branch is a work in progress. Once I've finished the support for older GTK+ and GLib versions I'll merge it to master and will notify you. We should keep the bug report open until then.

[thekalinga]

@cboxdoerfer Is there any progress on this issue.

[cboxdoerfer]

Since those distros are pretty much EOL, I'm going to close this. Given the limited amount of time I have, it's just not feasible to spend a lot of time to support old libraries.