Re: jhbuild errors

[Michael Hill <mdhillca gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:52:38AM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
>> Running 'jhbuild build --nodeps gnome-boxes' I get a number of
>> failures (below) building libosinfo, libvirt-glib and librsvg on
>> openSUSE 12.3. Has anyone seen these errors before? Am I missing
>> something in my setup?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> libosinfo:
>>
>>   GEN      Libosinfo-1.0.gir
>>
>> (process:18683): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2720: You forgot to
>> call g_type_init()
>
> glib from jhbuild has now deprecated g_type_init, so libosinfo got some
> compile-time changes not to call g_type_init when a recent enough glib is
> detected. Given that you are building libosinfo from jhbuild, I expect it
> not to call g_type_init at all. However, these error messages seem to
> imply that at some point it's trying to use an older glib at runtime. Maybe
> you are not using gobject-introspection from jhbuild? (very wild and blind
> guess)

Thanks, Christophe. That makes sense... I don't have this issue on
Fedora. I checked, however, and gobject-introspection *is* being
jhbuilt prior to libosinfo.

Mike