Re: [Gimp-developer] configure: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Missing dep: appstream-glib >= 0.7.7

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 2018-07-11 10:47 AM, richard brown wrote:
> On 11/07/18 15:16, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> > On 2018-07-11 09:59 AM, richard brown via gimp-developer-list wrote:
> > > The latest git pull of 2.99 won't build. It gives me the error
> > >
> > > "configure: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Missing dep: appstream-glib >= 0.7.7"
> I think it just needed the rpm stuff for some reason.  I installed rpm 
> (don't use it either).
> I had to install a more recent gobject-introspection to get the more recent 
> appstream-glib to build.  And yes, there's a bug with yaml and the meson 
> build system.  see:
>
> https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/146
>
> I would add that you need a recent version of meson to get it to build 
> properly too.
>
> I love dependency problems.

Indeed.  :P

This is the worse case of dependency problems for GIMP I have had to deal 
with in quite a while. I need to compile appstream-glib which needed about 
three other -dev packages. I then hit the yaml issue which required the 
newer glib-introspection program. Trying to compile that required some other 
package I don't have. About this point I gave up on trying to build git 
master branch of GIMP.

If/when I update my distro to Mint 19 I'll try again.

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