Cyril Roelandt <[email protected]> skribis: > On 05/06/2014 12:36 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> While trying to package librsvg, I stumbled upon this: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> Couldn't find include 'GdkPixbuf-2.0.gir' (search path: ['.', 'gir-1.0', >> '/gnu/store/xdd5ndl01700w23z206nc36nqg96z94v-gobject-introspection-1.38.0/share/gir-1.0', >> '/usr/share/gir-1.0', >> '/gnu/store/xdd5ndl01700w23z206nc36nqg96z94v-gobject-introspection-1.38.0/share/gir-1.0']) >> /gnu/store/xdd5ndl01700w23z206nc36nqg96z94v-gobject-introspection-1.38.0/share/gobject-introspection-1.0/Makefile.introspection:153: >> recipe for target 'Rsvg-2.0.gir' failed >> make[2]: *** [Rsvg-2.0.gir] Error 1 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> Do you remember if the gobject-introspection “scanner” had a way to >> specify a search path, like an env. var.? >> >> Otherwise, how can we make sure that the .girs of inputs are visible? >> > > Look at the 'gir-directory' function in guix/build/gnome.scm. It's used > in gnu/packages/{gtk,gnome}.scm and does exactly what you need.
Oh right, thanks, that does the job. It’d be great to submit a patch upstream so that g-ir-compiler & co. honor a GIR_PATH environment variable or similar. That seems like the right thing to do, and definitely helpful for us. Since it’s written in Python, I thought perhaps you could lend a hand? :-) Ludo’.
