Re: error building with jhbuild

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahlstedt gmail com>]

Den 2017-08-05 kl. 10:31, skrev Kjell Ahlstedt:
> 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
I have pushed a patch that removes all use of GtkEventBox from gtkmm-4 
(git's master branch), and another patch that does the same for 
gtkmm-documentation. Now it should be possible to build gtkmm-4 with 
jhbuild (until more API is removed from gtk+-4).

Kjell