On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 16:36, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 9/24/19 6:18 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:24:48AM +0100, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote:
> >> when configuring babl-1.72 I get:
> >>
> >> babl/meson.build:142:2: ERROR: Program(s) ['g-ir-scanner'] not found
> >> or not executable.
> >>
> >> g-ir-scanner is provided by gobject-introspection. Something weird
> >> going on here.
> >>
> >> I think I'll stay with version 1.66 for the moment.
> >>
> >> jb.
> >
> > I saw on gimp-dev earlier this month that gimp-2.99 (git) requires
> > introspection, so I'm not surprised that the latest babl release also
> > needs that.
>
>  From meson_options.txt:
>
> option('enable-gir',    type: 'boolean', value: true, description:
> 'enable GObject-Introspection (GIR)')
>
> so it is not required.  Since gimp will soon require it, I'll mate
> gobject recommended in babl.
>
I can confirm that it does work with gobject-introspection installed.
In the command explanation section you could add a note about how to turn off
introspection support if g-i is not installed.

jb.
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