Re: enerating Shell-0.1.gir with a custom command. FAILED: src/Shell-0.1.gir

[tjoen dds nl]

Giovanni Campagna schreef op 25-09-2017 17:57:
> On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 12:42 +0200, tjoen dds nl wrote:
> > System: Linux LFS-like
> > gnome-shell-3.26.0
> > gobject-introspection-1.54.0 make check passed all tests
> > bash-4.4 with all 12 patches
> >
> > cut and paste from xterm
> >
> > [...]
> > Command
> > '[u'/home/tdance/rpmbuild/BUILD/gnome-shell-3.26.0/_build/tmp-
> > introspectJOKYck/Shell-0.1',
> > u'--introspect-dump=/home/tdance/rpmbuild/BUILD/gnome-shell-
> > 3.26.0/_build/tmp-
> > introspectJOKYck/functions.txt,/home/tdance/rpmbuild/BUILD/gnome-
> > shell-3.26.0/_build/tmp-introspectJOKYck/dump.xml']'
> > returned non-zero exit status -11
> > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> >
> > Similar problem with gjs-1.50.0 : Command
> > '[u'/home/tdance/rpmbuild/BUILD....
> > where I circumvented problem with
> > $ sed -i 's/INTROSPECTION_GIRS = GjsPrivate-
> > 1.0.gir/INTROSPECTION_GIRS
> > =/g' Makefile.in
> >
> > I am not familiar enough with meson and ninja to find a circumvention
> > or
> > how to disable GIR
>
> You cannot disable GIR when you build gnome-shell, because gnome-shell
> is partially written in JavaScript and needs GIR information to load
> its C library.

Ai! that means I am stuck here. I wonder if it is possible using 
gnome-shell,
and gnome-session from Gnome-3.24.2

> From the error code, -11, it might be that some process is segfaulting
> in the introspection process. Specifically, it looks like the temporary
> binary that is run to extract property information is segfaulting.
> A reason for this could be lacking a working display server on the
> build machine (some gtk libraries don't like having their classes
> probed if gtk is not initialized), but I'm not sure.

It compiled under startx with mutter as window manager.

> Investigating further what is segfaulting might help you.

In build.ninja:
rule CUSTOM_COMMAND
 command = $COMMAND

The command i '[u'...
I have never seen such command. Is that command normal?