Re: [Gimp-developer] Building GIMP master fails because of missing gobject-introspection

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 07/29/2019 04:14 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).
>
> Steve

I don't have an answer except that checking the latest commits 
introspection does now look to be required: 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/commit/41d3b478a2899bf1e855f97d5d19784eeb9bd01f 


I do have a question: Could someone please explain what introspection 
actually is or does? And why it's now required for GIMP instead of 
optional? I've looked "introspection" up on the internet several times 
over the last few years - all the explanations I've seen just seem like 
a bunch of gibberish words all lined up into gibberish paragraphs.

Elle