Re: can't build gnome-shell: missing meta-plugin.h

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

I've gotten theses sorts of errors before when autotools got messed
up. Usually a good ol'

$ git clean -fdx

in the mutter and shell dirs, and then do:

$ jhbuild buildone -afn mutter gnome-shell

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net> wrote:
> It's been a while since I had build issues, can anyone tell what might
> be going on?
>
> I'm trying to build *just* the shell, I believe I have all the build
> dependencies installed so as not to need jhbuild (I did not have good
> experiences with building from the jhbuild edge).
>
> When I do a make in gnome-shell, I get this error:
>
>  CC     run_js_test-run-js-test.o
> In file included from run-js-test.c:38:0:
> shell-global.h:9:30: fatal error: meta/meta-plugin.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> make[3]: *** [run_js_test-run-js-test.o] Error 1
>
> I have installed mutter-devel, and rpm sayeth:
>
> $ rpm -ql mutter-devel
> /usr/bin/mutter-theme-viewer
> /usr/bin/mutter-window-demo
> /usr/include/mutter
> /usr/include/mutter/meta
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/atomnames.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/boxes.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/common.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/compositor-mutter.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/compositor.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/display.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/errors.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/gradient.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/group.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/keybindings.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/main.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/meta-plugin.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/meta-shadow-factory.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/meta-window-actor.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/prefs.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/preview-widget.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/screen.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/theme.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/types.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/util.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/window.h
> /usr/include/mutter/meta/workspace.h
> /usr/lib64/libmutter.so
> /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libmutter.pc
> /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/mutter-plugins.pc
> /usr/share/man/man1/mutter-theme-viewer.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/mutter-window-demo.1.gz
>
> And just for thrills, the file does indeed exist:
> $ ll /usr/include/mutter/meta/meta-plugin.h
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13K May 26 06:01 /usr/include/mutter/meta/meta-plugin.h
>
> So I'm pretty sure the file should be found. Any idea what I'm missing?
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-- 
 Jasper