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

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net>]

I've no idea how that affected the ability to import a file that is
clearly there, but it worked - Thanks.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Jasper St. Pierre
<jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> 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
>