Re: jhbuild fails

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 18:29 +0100, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When trying to build gir from the jhbuild on the wiki it fails with the
> following error:
> /home/jhs/gnome-shell/install/bin/g-ir-scanner -v --namespace
> ClutterJson --nsversion=0.8 \
> 	    --add-include-path=. --add-include-path=. \
>              --include=GObject-2.0 \
> 	     --library=clutter-glx-0.8 \
> 	      \
>              --pkg gobject-2.0 \
>              --pkg clutter-glx-0.8 \
>              --output ClutterJson-0.8.gir \
> 	     -I`pkg-config --variable=includedir clutter-glx-0.8` \
>              `pkg-config --variable=includedir
> clutter-glx-0.8`/clutter-0.8/clutter/json/*.h
>  38 nodes; 2 objects, 0 interfaces, 0 enums
> Type resolution; pass=0
> make[2]: *** [ClutterJson-0.8.gir] Segmentation fault
> 
> Sorry, that the first mail to this list is not very useful but it's
> difficult to start hacking before you can even build and I didn't find a
> bugtracker for gir.

Hey, you have to start somewhere :-)

I believe this is a libselinux bug that affects both Ubuntu Intrepid,
and (in some cases, maybe only if selinux is disabled), Fedora 10.

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libselinux/+bug/237156

Johan Dahlin came up with a patch:

 http://www.gnome.org/~johan/libselinux2.patch

- Owen