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

[Ell <ell_se yahoo com>]

On 7/29/19 11:14 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).

Introspection is indeed required to build master right now, and can't be
disabled.  Autoconf simply ignores unsupported --enable-foo flags by
default, so you didn't get an error for the flag (but you should have
gotten a warning at the beginning of the output).

--
Ell