On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 01:10:23PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev 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.
[...]
> > > >
> > > > 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.
Perhaps I should have added that the release of gimp-3.0 is unlikely
to happen any time soon.
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> -- Bruce
>
Actually, we do explain how to avoid several recommended
dependencies. While we are on gimp-2.10 perhaps we should do the
same here (but I long ago stopped building without introspection).
ĸen
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