On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 19:12, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/24/19 1:01 PM, John Burrell via blfs-dev wrote: > > 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. > > If it's recommended, we usually let the user figure out how to not use > it. In this case babl is only used by gegl and gegl is only used by > gimp. If gimp requires g-i, then why would you not want it? > Because you may be installing babl for gnome-photos, and not for gimp. But I guess if one is installing a Gnome desktop, then g-i will be installed because it's required by loads of gnome packages. So point taken.
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