Re: [Gtk-osx-users] Failure while building gtk+

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:13 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Richard Procter wrote:
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>> On 16/09/2010, at 3:03 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>>> A big part of the problem seems to be that gobject-introspection  
>>> isn't really stable. Perhaps it's too soon for modulesets-stable to  
>>> use it. From a Gtk-OSX standpoint, it's useful only for PyGtk... so  
>>> what do you guys think? Should I pull it and go back to --enable- 
>>> introspection=no for a while in stable?
>> 
>> That's certainly my impression. I don't feel I know enough to offer a  
>> sound judgment on whether it should be in -stable or not. Disabling  
>> the new introspection stuff is fine by me, though. My understanding  
>> is its the next big thing in GTK bindings and will obviate the need  
>> for PyGTK and I'm not using it at the moment as far as I am aware.
>> 
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> As I understand it it won't obsolete PyGtk, but it will make it much easier to maintain. For our purposes, though, that's irrelevant. I'll reinstate --enable-introspection=no in modulesets-stable and modulesets. If someone wants bleeding edge (like me when I'm writing gtk-quartz code), that's what modulesets-unstable is for.
> 

What I did instead is to remove the dependencies on (and hence the building of) gobject-introspection and gir-repository. If they're not present, then the packages which can use them (pango and gtk+) will build happily without them, no extra options required.

If your build directory has gobject-introspection already in it, you can run "jhbuild uninstall gobject-introspection" and "jhbuild uninstall gir-repository", then "jhbuild buildone --clean --force gtk+" and pygobject should be happy.

Regards,
John Ralls