Re: New Meson config failure

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Hello Peter,
On 2017.11.04 15:37, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
[snip....]
> Re the meson version upgrade: you may need to make a new build  
> directory with the new meson+ninja; I've had it complain about using  
> a build directory that was created using an older version.
I thought I had started with a clean build dir, but re-cleaning did get  
rid of some problems.
> Re Balsa's options: I did some extensive renaming, dropping all with-  
> prefixes, and replacing all the yes/no choices with true/false. Run  
> "meson configure" in the new build directory to see all the names and  
> possible values.
> Boolean options were already true/false, but some others (including  
> gpgme) were yes/no/path-to-something, so for consistency I changed  
> those to true/false/path.
> So in particular, you'd need "gpgme=true".
All good now with two new issues.

I now get:
DEPRECATION: The "languages" argument of gnome.yelp() is deprecated.   
Use a LINGUAS file in the sources directory instead.  This will become  
a hard error in the future.

I'm not sure which parameter triggered this, but I suppose it's  
something other than the default, and I used
-Dgnome-desktop=false -Dlibsecret=true -Dgpgme=true  
-Dspell-checker=gtkspell -Dosmo=true -Dgtksourceview=true  
-Dhelp-files=true

Then, I get a compile failure (which I don't get using ./configure and  
make)

[7/145] Generating libbalsa_marshal_h with a custom command.
FAILED: libbalsa/libbalsa-marshal.h
glib-genmarshal --header --prefix=libbalsa  
--output=libbalsa/libbalsa-marshal.h  
../balsa-git/libbalsa/libbalsa-marshal.list

(process:21064): GLib-Genmarshal-WARNING **: failed to open  
"--output=libbalsa/libbalsa-marshal.h": No such file or directory
 (here it spits out what I assume is supposed to go into that file)
[9/145] Generating soundlist-file with a custom command.
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

The libbalsa subdir does exist, and I'm not sure why it would complain  
no such file or directory for something it is trying to write, not read.

If I put that output into a file of that name and try again, I get the  
same error, followed by a similar error for libbalsa-marshal.c

I have no idea if this is specifically because of either meson or  
ninja, or if it is using some code path I happened not to trigger with  
the traditional build (even though I'm trying to use the same  
parameters.)

> Thanks for continuing to test the meson build!
>
> Peter
Not a problem.

Jack