Re: "gschemas.compiled" not found

[Scott Kostyshak <skostysh princeton edu>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 30 November 2013 08:33, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh princeton edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> > > On 30 November 2013 08:22, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh princeton edu> wrote:
> > > > On Ubuntu 13.10 with a fresh git clone I get the following when trying
> > > > to run meld:
> > > >
> > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > >   File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 180, in <module>
> > > >     import meld.meldapp
> > > >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/meldapp.py", line
> > > > 33, in <module>
> > > >     import meld.preferences
> > > >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/preferences.py",
> > > > line 32, in <module>
> > > >     from meld.settings import settings, interface_settings
> > > >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meld/settings.py", line
> > > > 25, in <module>
> > > >     False,
> > > > gi._glib.GError: Failed to open file
> > > > '/usr/share/meld/gschemas.compiled': open() failed: No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > >
> > > > I did a search on meld-list and did not find any related thread. Any advice?
> > >
> > > See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/meld-list/2013-November/msg00017.html
> > > and https://mail.gnome.org/archives/meld-list/2013-November/msg00011.html
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Kai
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response Kai.
>
> I'm mostly just terrified by how many people seem to have come to
> expect Meld to work from a git HEAD checkout. I mean... *I* expect it
> to work but then it would be a worry if I didn't.
>
> GSettings/dconf is actually really unpleasant here. I don't know of
> any sensible way I can have Meld work without a build step anymore.
> (It'll be a minimal build step, but still...)  We *could* try to run
> glib-compile-schemas if we think we're in a checkout, but that's not
> the sanest notion ever.

Makes sense. Sounds tricky. As for expecting git HEAD to work, I did
not. Well, I would have guessed that it would work, but I was
definitely not surprised when it did not. Perhaps I should have made
it more clear that I was just asking for advice and not trying to
report a "bug".

I like being able to build on git HEAD because I've reported a couple
of meld bugs. It is nice to reproduce bugs on the development version
and it's also nice to be able to do bisects (e.g. there was a bug that
you couldn't reproduce that was specific to Ubuntu. I think in the end
it might have ended up being an Ubuntu bug that was triggered by a
meld commit).

Best,

Scott