[blfs-support] gobject-introspection-1.60.2 tests required for PyGObject-3.32.2? - BLFS9.0

2019-10-14 Thread rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support
When compiling PyGObject-3.32.2 I receive 'tests/meson.build:27:2 ERROR Include dir /usr/share/gobject/-introspection-1.0/tests does not exist.' After recompiling gobject-introspection with 'ninja test -k0' PyGObject compiles successfully.  I see no requirement for the tests in the documenta

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-11 Thread Douglas R. Reno
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Michael Shell wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:02:31 +1200 > Simon Geard wrote: > > > But given the ease of installing it, versus the difficulty of going > > back and reinstalling packages if you later find that you need it, > > well... personally, I wouldn't skip

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-11 Thread Michael Shell
On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:02:31 +1200 Simon Geard wrote: > But given the ease of installing it, versus the difficulty of going > back and reinstalling packages if you later find that you need it, > well... personally, I wouldn't skip it unless I was absolutely certain > that none of the packages I

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-11 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 19:26 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > But as I don't build gnome, and don't cobble together new apps from > mashups of different languages, I'm not seeing what good it is to me. It's not about mashing up different languages - it's simply a tool for writing apps in languages other

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-10 Thread Paul Rogers
> After I gradually removed some gnome packages from my own builds, I > stopped building gobject-introspection. But nowadays I again build it > : a completed useful desktop nowadays needs many packages and a lot of > space, the build-time and space contribution of introspection is > minimal. I gu

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 10:11:49AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > The book tells me HOW to install it, I'm trying to figure out if it > needs to be installed or in what order it should be installed, e.g. > immediately after gobject? It seems like maybe it's a run-time > dependency, so maybe it can be

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 6/9/2017 11:11 AM, Paul Rogers wrote: The book tells me HOW to install it, I'm trying to figure out if it needs to be installed or in what order it should be installed, e.g. immediately after gobject? It seems like maybe it's a run-time dependency, so maybe it can be

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-09 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 6/9/2017 11:11 AM, Paul Rogers wrote: The book tells me HOW to install it, I'm trying to figure out if it needs to be installed or in what order it should be installed, e.g. immediately after gobject? It seems like maybe it's a run-time dependency, so maybe it can be installed at any point in

[blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

2017-06-09 Thread Paul Rogers
The book tells me HOW to install it, I'm trying to figure out if it needs to be installed or in what order it should be installed, e.g. immediately after gobject? It seems like maybe it's a run-time dependency, so maybe it can be installed at any point in the order. A dozen or so packages refer t

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection

2017-01-28 Thread Roger Koehler
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > Roger Koehler wrote: > > > I get errors when trying to install gobject-introspection on the > > multilib LFS system I just built. > > > > The errors look like this: > > > > /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/glib-autocleanups.h:41: syntax

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection

2017-01-28 Thread Jeremy Henty
Roger Koehler wrote: > I get errors when trying to install gobject-introspection on the > multilib LFS system I just built. > > The errors look like this: > > /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/glib-autocleanups.h:41: syntax error, > unexpected typedef-name, expecting identifier or '(' in '

[blfs-support] gobject-introspection

2017-01-28 Thread Roger Koehler
I get errors when trying to install gobject-introspection on the multilib LFS system I just built. The errors look like this: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/glib-autocleanups.h:41: syntax error, unexpected typedef-name, expecting identifier or '(' in 'type def GAsyncQueue *GAsyncQueue_autoptr;' at 'G

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-06-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:45:47PM +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 14:50 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > > I had seen that.  That is what gave me a clue about what it does, > > and why it might be something that may find broader use, ala GTK, > > besides the number of optional depende

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 15:36 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > And seems like lots of stuff wants glib.  OK, thanks Simon.  Looks > like I ought to include it in the future. Probably, yeah. You *might* not need it... but if you find out the hard way that you need it installed, you'll likely also have to

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-24 Thread Paul Rogers
> > Any benefit to non-developers? > > Yes - without it, applications written with certain frameworks won't > work. > > Essentially, GIR is used to generate language-bindings for glib-based > libraries, and is used by anyone using those libraries in languages > other than C. > > Compiled languag

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 14:50 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > I had seen that.  That is what gave me a clue about what it does, > and why it might be something that may find broader use, ala GTK, > besides the number of optional dependencies in the book.  Have you > seen any evidence it's finding wide su

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: This might be useful for you https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GObjectIntrospection?action=show&redirect=GObjectIntrospection I had seen that. That is what gave me a clue about what it does, and why it might be something that may find broader use, ala GTK, beside

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-22 Thread Paul Rogers
> This might be useful for you > > https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GObjectIntrospection?action=show&redirect=GObjectIntrospection > I had seen that. That is what gave me a clue about what it does, and why it might be something that may find broader use, ala GTK, besides the number of

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: I make (B)LFS systems for "end-user" use. When it comes to optional dependencies, I tend to avoid their installation and maintenance "expense" unless I can see a positive, direct benefit to the end-user experience. So far I've avoided the GObject Introspection package. It's

Re: [blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 03:57:58PM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > I make (B)LFS systems for "end-user" use. When it comes to optional > dependencies, I tend to avoid their installation and maintenance > "expense" unless I can see a positive, direct benefit to the end-user > experience. > > So far I'

[blfs-support] GObject Introspection and a sense of development directions

2016-05-21 Thread Paul Rogers
I make (B)LFS systems for "end-user" use. When it comes to optional dependencies, I tend to avoid their installation and maintenance "expense" unless I can see a positive, direct benefit to the end-user experience. So far I've avoided the GObject Introspection package. It's optional in many of t

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Rob
Bruce Dubbs wrote: blfs-7.8 uses GLib-2.44.1 Oh wow. How on earth did I get that? Let me try installing glib-2.44.1 and see what happens then. Glib was a few days ago--I think I installed it to get irssi running--so I can't remember where I found that version. -- http://lists.linuxfromscrat

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Thanos Baloukas
On 01/02/2016 08:31 μμ, Rob wrote: Fernando de Oliveira wrote: What are the relevant version? BLFS? gobject-introspection? This is BLFS 7.8. gobject-introspection-1.44.0 glib-2.42.1 But BLFS 7.8 has glib-2.44.1 -- Thanos -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: htt

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Chris Staub
On 02/01/2016 01:31 PM, Rob wrote: Fernando de Oliveira wrote: What are the relevant version? BLFS? gobject-introspection? This is BLFS 7.8. gobject-introspection-1.44.0 glib-2.42.1 BLFS 7.8 has Glib 2.44.1. Sounds like you're mixing up BLFS versions somewhere. -- http://lists.linuxfroms

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: Fernando de Oliveira wrote: What are the relevant version? BLFS? gobject-introspection? This is BLFS 7.8. gobject-introspection-1.44.0 glib-2.42.1 blfs-7.8 uses GLib-2.44.1 -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Rob
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: What are the relevant version? BLFS? gobject-introspection? This is BLFS 7.8. gobject-introspection-1.44.0 glib-2.42.1 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above informa

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 01-02-2016 14:11, Rob escreveu: > When I went to install this package, ./configure whined: > configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0) were not met: > > Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0' but version of GLib is 2.42.1 > > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variabl

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: When I went to install this package, ./configure whined: configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0) were not met: Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0' but version of GLib is 2.42.1 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a n

Re: [blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Chris Staub
On 02/01/2016 12:11 PM, Rob wrote: When I went to install this package, ./configure whined: configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0) were not met: Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0' but version of GLib is 2.42.1 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you i

[blfs-support] gobject-introspection/Glib mismatch

2016-02-01 Thread Rob
When I went to install this package, ./configure whined: configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0) were not met: Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.44.0' but version of GLib is 2.42.1 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standar