Re: [gtk-osx-users] Updating GTK3: ninja error.

[john <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Sep 26, 2021, at 1:41 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have got a ninja error when updating gtk3:
>
> % jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-gtk3
> ...
> *** Checking out gtk+-3.0 *** [28/33]
> curl --continue-at - -L http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/3.24/gtk+-3.24.30.tar.xz -o 
> /usr/local/src-2021/pkgs/gtk+-3.24.30.tar.xz
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
> 100   272  100   272    0     0    334      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  2385
>  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
> 100 21.3M  100 21.3M    0     0  2050k      0  0:00:10  0:00:10 --:--:-- 2451k
> xzcat -d "/usr/local/src-2021/pkgs/gtk+-3.24.30.tar.xz" | tar xf -
> *** Applying patch Quartz-version-detection-for-macOS-12.patch *** [28/33]
> patch -p1 < "/usr/local/src-2021/cache/jhbuild/Quartz-version-detection-for-macOS-12.patch"
> patching file gdk/quartz/gdkglobals-quartz.c
> patching file gdk/quartz/gdkquartz.h
> *** Configuring gtk+-3.0 *** [28/33]
> ...
> *** Building gtk+-3.0 *** [28/33]
> ninja  
> [0/1288] Generating gdkenumtypes.h with a custom command (wrapped by meson to ca
> ...
> [1075/1288] Compiling C object testsuite/gtk/gtkmenu.p/gtkmenu.c.o
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> *** Error during phase build of gtk+-3.0: ########## Error running ninja   *** [28/33]
>
> There isn't any straight forward explanation found in logs.
> Any idea?
> What could help to go further?

The real error is in there somewhere, but it might be easier to find by dropping to the shell and running
  ninja -j 1
so that you don't have to look through all of the build threads to find the one that errored out.

Regards,
John Ralls