On 7/29/19 11:14 AM, Steve Pricks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to build GIMP master (commit
> f74320d4dc5e92351001cd44c4380c95725eccd5).
> Configure failed with this message:
>
> checking for gobject-introspection... configure: error:
> gobject-introspection-1.0 is not installed
>
> Configure failed or did not finish!
>
> It also happened when I pass the parameter --enable-introspection=no
> Interestingly having the Debian package gobject-introspection (version 1.58)
> installed didn't have an effect.
> After installing the package libgirepository1.0-dev it works, but it seems
> that the handling of the parameter --enable-introspection=no is buggy (or if
> introspection is required, then it should not be possible to disable it).
Introspection is indeed required to build master right now, and can't be
disabled. Autoconf simply ignores unsupported --enable-foo flags by
default, so you didn't get an error for the flag (but you should have
gotten a warning at the beginning of the output).
--
Ell
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