Re: starting new cloned meld gives FileNotFoundError

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

Yes, glib-compile-resources is a required tool for running Meld from a
checkout. I can't tell you what Ubuntu package it's in, but the Fedora
package is glib2-devel.

cheers,
Kai


On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 06:19, Fischer, Claudio
<Claudio Fischer weinig com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> running meld directly from git clone on master branch commit ca9ef23f3d476e4adf90e6d98e75cb5802cb74bb
> from 28.10.2019. System is Ubuntu 19.10 64 bit.
>
> Meld is running fine on my machine.
>
> But if I do a fresh clone of meld in a new folder, from this folder meld is not running and gives following 
> error:
>
>
> user@ubuntucf:~/test/meld/bin$ ./meld
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./meld", line 405, in <module>
>     setup_resources()
>   File "./meld", line 257, in setup_resources
>     cwd=melddir
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 339, in call
>     with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 800, in __init__
>     restore_signals, start_new_session)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child
>     raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: 'glib-compile-resources': 
> 'glib-compile-resources'
>
>
> I compared the running folder and the new cloned folder and found the file "data/org.gnome.meld.gresource" 
> in the running version.
> This file is missing in the new cloned folder and this seems to give the error.
> If I copy the file to the new cloned folder, the new cloned meld is running also fine.
>
>
> Regards,
> Claudio
>
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