Issues compiling gobject-introspection

[Matthew Gibson <mdg583 gmail com>]

Hello,

If this is the wrong place to post this issue, I apologize.

I use freebsd as my desktop, and every so often I try to get things like gnome-shell to work for me. The first step for me for this is to try to compile gobject-introspection.
Usually linux-targeted source code works in freebsd with a handful of patches.

Compilation fails for me in gobject-introspection/gir with this error:

> ../tools/g-ir-compiler --includedir=.  GLib-2.0.gir -o GLib-2.0.typelib
>
> ** WARNING **: Entry 'GPid' not found
> aborting...
> gmake: *** [GLib-2.0.typelib] Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)

Does anyone know why this would be? 

The end of
#../tools/g-ir-compiler --verbose --debug --includedir=. GLib-2.0.gir -o GLib-2.0.typelib
looks like this:

> ... 
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'ChecksumType' 0x28520370 type 'enum', offset 17572 -> 17632, offset2 17648 -> 17668
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28520370 type 'enum'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x285097c0 type 'value'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'md5' 0x285097c0 type 'value' full size 16
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28509820 type 'value'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'sha1' 0x28509820 type 'value' full size 20
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x285098e0 type 'value'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'sha256' 0x285098e0 type 'value' full size 20
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'ChecksumType' 0x28520370 type 'enum' full size 96
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28520370 type 'enum'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x285097c0 type 'value'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'md5' 0x285097c0 type 'value' full size 16
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28509820 type 'value'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'sha1' 0x28509820 type 'value' full size 20
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x285098e0 type 'value'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'sha256' 0x285098e0 type 'value' full size 20
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 'ChecksumType' 0x28520370 type 'enum' full size 96
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28526280 type 'callback' size 12
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: build_typelib: ChildWatchFunc (callback)
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: build_typelib: (type)
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28525b20 type 'type', offset 17696 -> 17700, offset2 17752 -> 17752
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28525b20 type 'type'
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: node 0x28525b20 type 'type' full size 4
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: build_typelib: pid (param)
> ** (g-ir-compiler:1949): DEBUG: build_typelib: (type)
>
> ** WARNING **: Entry 'GPid' not found
> aborting...
> Abort (core dumped)