Inclusion of `gobject-introspection` breaks several packages.

Inclusion of `gobject-introspection` breaks several packages.

[Paul Menzel]

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Dear OE folks,


`gobject-introspection` got added in 143188 [1] to get `libgee_0.6.0` to
build [2].

As a consequence the configure script of a lot of packages like `gtk+`,
`atk`, `gstreamer` detects the presence of GObject Introspection and
enables it.

        $ ./configure --help
        […]
          --enable-introspection=[no/auto/yes]
                                  Enable introspection for this build
        […]

Auto detection seems to be the default.

        […]
        configure:12206: checking for gobject-introspection
        configure:12237: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gobject-introspection-1.0 >= 0.6.7"
        configure:12240: $? = 0
        configure:12251: result: yes
        […]

Now for example Pango 1.10.0 does not generate a `gir` file, which was
enabled again in a later release [3]. This breaks building for example
`gtk+` [4].

The question is how to proceed.

1. Somehow excluding `gobject-introspection` from images.
2. Would packaging gir-repository [5] help?
3. Pass `--enable-introspection=no` by default to the configure script.
4. Add `--enable-introspection=no` to all relevant packages.
5. Update to new versions supporting GObject Introspection correctly.

What do you think?


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=14318872c0063d26c246a35b373dbfaf4f4c6587
[2] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=64a53b0ab6695b9ec4e327524fb41a916067bbfd
[3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/commit/?id=078300ef69ab0855a7cc39503880cbc8b2e23494
[4] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-October/025174.html (patch is wrong though)
[5] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gir-repository/tree/

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Re: Inclusion of `gobject-introspection` breaks several packages.

[Koen Kooi]

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On 10-10-10 13:53, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear OE folks,
> 
> 
> `gobject-introspection` got added in 143188 [1] to get `libgee_0.6.0` to
> build [2].
> 
> As a consequence the configure script of a lot of packages like `gtk+`,
> `atk`, `gstreamer` detects the presence of GObject Introspection and
> enables it.
> 
>         $ ./configure --help
>         […]
>           --enable-introspection=[no/auto/yes]
>                                   Enable introspection for this build
>         […]
> 
> Auto detection seems to be the default.

Last time I looked introspection didn't work in a cross environment, so
we disable it for most packages.

If it does work for cross now, we should consider enabling it, if not,
we should disable it.

There's an open bug in the gnome bugzilla about shipping pregenerated
.gir files with releases, but I haven't seen that happen yet.

regards,

Koen
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Re: Inclusion of `gobject-introspection` breaks several packages.

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear OE folks,
>
>
> `gobject-introspection` got added in 143188 [1] to get `libgee_0.6.0` to
> build [2].

with my last commit to libgee its no more needed to be in the depends in libgee
so we can remove that from DEPENDS safely.

>
> As a consequence the configure script of a lot of packages like `gtk+`,
> `atk`, `gstreamer` detects the presence of GObject Introspection and
> enables it.
>
>        $ ./configure --help
>        […]
>          --enable-introspection=[no/auto/yes]
>                                  Enable introspection for this build
>        […]
>
> Auto detection seems to be the default.
>
>        […]
>        configure:12206: checking for gobject-introspection
>        configure:12237: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gobject-introspection-1.0 >= 0.6.7"
>        configure:12240: $? = 0
>        configure:12251: result: yes
>        […]
>
> Now for example Pango 1.10.0 does not generate a `gir` file, which was
> enabled again in a later release [3]. This breaks building for example
> `gtk+` [4].
>
> The question is how to proceed.
>
> 1. Somehow excluding `gobject-introspection` from images.
> 2. Would packaging gir-repository [5] help?
> 3. Pass `--enable-introspection=no` by default to the configure script.
> 4. Add `--enable-introspection=no` to all relevant packages.
> 5. Update to new versions supporting GObject Introspection correctly.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=14318872c0063d26c246a35b373dbfaf4f4c6587
> [2] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=64a53b0ab6695b9ec4e327524fb41a916067bbfd
> [3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/commit/?id=078300ef69ab0855a7cc39503880cbc8b2e23494
> [4] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-October/025174.html (patch is wrong though)
> [5] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gir-repository/tree/
>
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Re: Inclusion of `gobject-introspection` breaks several packages.

[Paul Menzel]

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Am Sonntag, den 10.10.2010, 12:23 -0700 schrieb Khem Raj:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:

> > `gobject-introspection` got added in 143188 [1] to get `libgee_0.6.0` to
> > build [2].
> 
> with my last commit to libgee its no more needed to be in the depends in libgee
> so we can remove that from DEPENDS safely.

I will test that and prepare a patch.

[…]


Thanks,

Paul


> > [1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=14318872c0063d26c246a35b373dbfaf4f4c6587
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