Re: Building GTK+ from scratch on Linux

[tarnyko tarnyko net]

Hi Kevin, 

From what I can see, yes, the source of your problem is that there is 
already a "glib-genmarshal" binary present on your system, and the script 
tries to use this one. 

Probably, you do not install your builds to standard "/usr", but rather to 
"/opt" or "/usr/local" to avoid destroying existing GLib & GTK+.
If yes, you have to put your personal "bin" in the PATH with first priority, 
because GTK+ build process needs "glib-genmarshal", 
"glib-compile-resources", etc.
Theorically, your should have done the same with personal "include" (CFLAGS) 
and personal "lib" (LDFLAGS). 

I recently built GTK+ and had to do it, too. 

Regards,
Tarnyko 

Kevin Connor Arpe writes: 

> Hello, 
>
> I am building GTK+ from scratch on Linux.  I am very, very close.  All
> dependencies are built, but I am seeing an odd error in the final GTK+
> build. 
>
> GLib-Genmarshal-WARNING **: failed to open "--valist-marshallers": No such
> file or directory 
>
> Fortunately, I found this old message on gtk-list:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2012-April/msg00001.html 
>
> Digging deep, I see Ian Liu Rodrigues suggested:
> And what about `which glib-genmarshal'? Does it point to the correct binary
> compiled by you? 
>
> I checked my build: Ian was right.  The tool glib-genmarshal was being run
> from /usr/bin, instead of my local build dir ($HOME/saveme/gtk3).  Since I
> am running Debian, the base install includes GLib 2.24.2.  AFAIK: Older
> versions of GLib do not support the arg --valist-marshallers for
> glib-genmarshal. 
>
> I checked the GTK+ configure script.  I do not see an override for this
> issue.  To complete the build of GTK+, I am changing my PATH env var:
> export PATH=$HOME/saveme/gtk3/bin:$PATH 
>
> In my experience with open source, this seems a bit odd.  Am I doing the
> right thing?  Or should there be an override available in GTK+ configure
> script? 
>
> Finally, I have a personal policy to contribute docs back to open source
> projects after I get help with issues on mailing lists.  This helps others
> to avoid the same issues in the future.  I would like to contribute a HOWTO
> to build GTK+ from scratch.  Where would be the best to contribute? 
>
> A little background info for this mail:
> Here are the packages I have built from scratch.  Where possible, I use
> these configure args: --enable-introspection=yes --enable-gtk-doc
> --enable-debug=yes
>     ATK 2.6: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atk/2.6/
>     AT-SPI2-ATK 2.7.2:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi2-atk/2.7/
>     AT-SPI2 Core 2.7.2:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi2-core/2.7/
>     Cairo 1.12.8: http://www.cairographics.org/releases/
>     FreeType 2.4.10:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/
>     Gdk-Pixbuf 2.26: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdk-pixbuf/2.26/
>     GLib 2.34: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.34/
>     GObject Introspection 1.34.2:
> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gobject-introspection/1.35/
>     GTK+ 3.6: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/3.6/
>     HarfBuzz 0.9.7: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/
>     Pango 1.32: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.32/
>     Pixman 0.28.0: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman/ 
>
> Many thanks in advance. 
>
> Kind regards,
> Kevin Connor ARPE
> Hongkong