midori building failed by external-download-manager

[Lödur]

I've downloaded from http://twotoasts.de/index.php/midori/ the source archive
http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/midori/0.4/midori-0.4.6.tar.bz2#!sha1!da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Then I've extracted files from archive
tar xvf midori-0.4.6.tar.bz2

Now I change in the midori directory
cd midori-0.4.6

and run the configure script
 ./waf configure
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Checking for program gcc or cc : /usr/bin/gcc
Checking for program cpp : /usr/bin/cpp
Checking for program ar : /usr/bin/ar
Checking for program ranlib : /usr/bin/ranlib
Checking for gcc : ok
Checking for program valac : /usr/bin/valac
Checking for gobject-2.0 : yes
Checking for gthread-2.0 : yes
Checking for program version valac >= 0.1.6 : ok 0.14.0
Checking for program glib-genmarshal : /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal
Checking for program glib-mkenums : /usr/bin/glib-mkenums
Checking for program msgfmt : /usr/bin/msgfmt
Checking for program intltool-merge : /usr/bin/intltool-merge
Checking for header locale.h : yes
Checking for program rsvg-convert : /usr/bin/rsvg-convert
Checking for unique-1.0 >= 0.9 : yes
Checking for libnotify >= : yes
Checking for library m : yes
Checking for gmodule-2.0 >= 2.8.0 : yes
Checking for gthread-2.0 >= 2.8.0 : yes
Checking for gio-2.0 >= 2.22.0 : yes
Checking for x11 >= : yes
Checking for header X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h : yes
Checking for library Xss : yes
Checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 : yes
Checking for webkit-1.0 >= 1.1.17 : yes
Checking for libsoup-2.4 >= 2.27.90 : yes
Checking for libxml-2.0 >= 2.6 : yes
Checking for sqlite3 >= 3.0 : yes
Checking for header unistd.h : yes
Checking for header signal.h : yes

        Localization: yes (intltool)
        Icon optimizations: yes (rsvg-convert)
        Notifications: yes (libnotify)

        API documentation: no (gtk-doc)

'configure' finished successfully (0.524s)
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/!\ Finally I want to build the program, but the compiling stopped thru the external-download-manager
./waf build
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Waf: Entering directory `/users/is/midori-0.4.6/_build'
[ 55/130] cc: _build/default/extensions/external-download-manager.c -> _build/default/extensions/external-

‘EDMSteadyflowInterfaceProxy’
default/extensions/external-download-manager.c:37: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before

‘EDMSteadyflowInterfaceProxyClass’
default/extensions/external-download-manager.c:180: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before

‘GDBusConnection’
default/extensions/external-download-manager.c:183: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token

‘GVariant’
default/extensions/external-download-manager.c:186: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before

‘GDBusMethodInvocation’
default/extensions/external-download-manager.c:187: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
default/extensions/external-download-manager.c:188: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token

pointer target type
/users/is/midori-0.4.6/extensions/external-download-manager.vala: In function ‘edm_steady_flow_real_download’:
/users/is/midori-0.4.6/extensions/external-download-manager.vala:186: error: ‘G_BUS_TYPE_SESSION’ undeclared

Waf: Leaving directory `/users/is/midori-0.4.6/_build'
Build failed: -> task failed (err #1):
        {task: cc external-download-manager.c -> external-download-manager_7.o}

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

It just occurred to me: the download manager extension uses GDBus which implies GLib. 2.26 and explains these errors (I shortened the output to the relevant bits).

I will bump the minimum GLib. It's already highly advisable for various other reasons to use a newer version.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I re-visited this: GLib 2.26 isn't required but extensions will be disabled, so for now an older GLib is still good enough.