Recently I’ve been playing with Midori in the wake of being informed that it’s now an Xfce project.  A nice enough browser, albeit quite solidly still in the development stage.  However, on systems such as mine that lack GLib 2.16 (and therefore GIO), there is a compilation error.  Specifically, there are two problematic zones.  The first is a confusion in the macros that check for GLib 2.16 and GtkSourceView that result in a failed compile if you have an older version of GLib in combination with GtkSourceView. Secondly, Midori will attempt to use GLib 2.16 symbols without first checking if the user has GLib 2.16.

So I wrote a patch and submitted a bug report.  The bugs are now fixed in git master, but for the existing stable release (0.19), you can find my patch at the relevant bug report.  To apply it, move it into the Midori 0.19 directory and then run

cat midori-glib216.patch | patch -p1