Re: [gtk-osx-users] Crash of jhbuild at install phase

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Feb 24, 2021, at 11:05 AM, Andrius Rinkevicius via gtk-osx-users-list <gtk-osx-users-list gnome org> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am getting crash when building my own program using custom moduleset.
> configure, build and install steps all are OK, however, jhbuild fails at final move of build files to 
> ~/gtk/inst/.
> The traceback is
> W: Ignoring uninstalled package: bluefish
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/Users/andrius/.new_local/libexec/run_jhbuild.py", line 17, in <module>
>     jhbuild.main.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/main.py", line 120, in main
>     rc = jhbuild.commands.run(command, config, args, help=lambda: print_help(parser))
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/commands/__init__.py", line 188, in run
>     return cmd.execute(config, args, help)
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/commands/__init__.py", line 56, in execute
>     return self.run(config, options, args, help)
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/commands/base.py", line 341, in run
>     return build.build()
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/frontends/buildscript.py", line 172, in build
>     error, altphases = module.run_phase(self, phase)
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/modtypes/__init__.py", line 420, in run_phase
>     method(buildscript)
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/modtypes/autotools.py", line 320, in do_install
>     self.process_install(buildscript, self.get_revision())
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/modtypes/__init__.py", line 317, in process_install
>     new_contents = fileutils.accumulate_dirtree_contents(destdir_prefix)
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/utils/fileutils.py", line 44, in accumulate_dirtree_contents
>     _accumulate_dirtree_contents_recurse(path, contents)
>   File "/Users/andrius/Source/jhbuild/jhbuild/utils/fileutils.py", line 26, in 
> _accumulate_dirtree_contents_recurse
>     names = os.listdir(path)
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '/Users/andrius/gtk/inst/_jhbuild/root-bluefish/Users/andrius/gtk/inst'
>
> I looks strange that it appends prefix at the end of path, however, as far as I can see this is done 
> fileutils.accumulate_dirtree_contents(destdir_prefix), it is intended.
> I am not sure if this is gtk-osx or jhbuild related bug, however, it seems that there are no such a n 
> errors reported on jhbuild bug tracker.
> I can see all build files located in '/Users/andrius/gtk/inst/_jhbuild/root-bluefish, so why there is extra 
> part added is hard to say. From the other hand, I have build complete gkt+ stack without any issues, just 
> one particular program fails without apparent reason.
> Another strange thing is that it says "W: Ignoring uninstalled package: bluefish", while package is not 
> uninstalled, it stays in source three. However, since it was installed via svn type repo, there is no 
> package in pkgs folder. 
> Any hints what to look for would be useful!

Andrius,

jhbuild does a two-step install. It first runs make or ninja install with 
DESTDIR=$PREFIX/_jhbuild/root-project-name; make/ninja is supposed to install to $DESTDIR/$PREFIX. Once 
make/ninja reports that the install completed normally jhbuild moves everything to $PREFIX and deletes 
$DESTDIR.

So if the files wound up as e.g. $DESTDIR/bin/bluefish instead of $DESTDIR/$PREFIX/bin/bluefish then when 
jhbuild went back to do the move it wouldn't be able to find the files. That's where I'd start investigating:

'Ignoring uninstalled package:' is from the triggers feature. I don't know anything about that, but there's a 
triggers/README in the jhbuild source tree with a brief description.

Regards,
John Ralls