Re: error building with jhbuild

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahlstedt gmail com>]

Den 2017-08-05 kl. 01:12, skrev Ian Martin:
> Hi,
>
> I'm unable to build gtkmm at the moment with jhbuild.  The process 
> stops with:
>
> > /data/jhbuild/checkout/gtkmm/tools/extra_defs_gen/generate_defs_gtk.cc:97:26: 
> > error: ‘GTK_TYPE_EVENT_BOX’ was not declared in this scope
> >              << get_defs( GTK_TYPE_EVENT_BOX )
> I've redownloaded from git but it still fails.  The most recent change 
> ( https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm/log/ ) references eventbox.hg, so 
> I'm guessing it's building for others.  OTOH, jhbuild builds the 
> previous 26 modules without any major issues, so I'm  comfortable the 
> problem is not my setup.
>
> Any idea where I should be looking?
>
>
> Ian.
GtkEventBox was removed from gtk+ 3 days ago with this commit:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=47fe08528d8d483aaef5e91f1a8646e066febf06

The master branches of gtk+ and gtkmm are more unstable than usual now. 
They are used for the coming ABI/API-breaking gtk+-4 and gtkmm-4. It 
happens now and then that API is removed from gtk+, and it can take a 
while before all references to the removed API has been removed from 
gtkmm. This is the kind of problem you can expect until ABI and API for 
gtk+-4 and gtkmm-4 have become more stable.

Alternatively, you can build gtkmm-3 with jhbuild. "jhbuild build gtkmm" 
builds (or tries to build) gtkmm-4. "jhbuild build gtkmm-3" builds 
gtkmm-3. There's a considerable difference between these two builds. 
gtkmm-3 and gtkmm-4 use different versions of several modules, not just 
gtk+.

Kjell