Using GtkHtml

[vddrnnr]

Hi kenhys,

I know that you say to use the enable-webkitgtk option when building but
I'm unable to get webkitgtk built on my system.
I can get gtkhtml 4.0 which
htmlview seems to support with the enabje-gtkhtml option.
I've changed all the files to be able to build with 4.0 but when I start sylpheed
it get's stuck trying to open a message ( any message ).
Can you shed some light on this?

Best regards,
voidRunner

[kenhys]

Hmm, I had not been used GtkHTML so long, I checked it.

If you mean "stuck" as crash about Sylpheed, I may be able to reproduce it.
(On my debian sid, gtkhtml packages is not provided, so I borrowed gtkhtml 4.8.5-1 package from jessie https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libgtkhtml-4.0-dev)

Here is the console message at that time.

 LANG=C LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib sylpheed
HtmlView plug-in loaded!
htmlview plug-in loading done

(process:25411): GLib-CRITICAL (recursed) **: Failed to get RW lock 0x7f49e669db30: Resource deadlock avoided[1]    25411 abort      LANG=C LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib sylpheed

Is this situation same as you faced?

[vddrnnr]

Hi and thanks for the reply,

In my case it's different.
I have the same initial output about plug-in loading and
sylpheed starts fine.
Then when I select Inbox, or a folder inside it it connects to the mail
server an retrieves the message list.
Then Sylpheed freezes when it tries to read the first message contents.
If I remove htmlview from the plugin folder it returns to normal.

Best regards,
voidRunner

[kenhys]

What's your environment?
Could you describe in details?
(distribution, release, depended library version, gtkhtml version, imap or pop and so on)
I may be able to investigate this issue on similar environment.

[vddrnnr]

Hi,

It's a powerbook from apple with a G4 PowerPC CPU.
I'm running adelie linux which is based on alpine linux.
I'm using the last version of sylpheed stable ( 3.7 ) and my GtkHtml version is 4.10 which
I downloaded the source from Github GNOME using git clone.

I'm connecting to an IMAP mail server.

Best regards,
voidRunner

[kenhys]

I'm running adelie linux which is based on alpine linux.

Oh, I had never used Adelie Linux before, so do you know that are there any virtual image (Virtualbox or something) available which is easy to use investigate this issue?