Help needed with gobject-introspection

[Jon Turney]

On 01/06/2020 12:30, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 01/06/2020 00:58, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>
>> Thanks!  That gets me much further in the glib build.  I still have a 
>> problem with the docs, but I have no reason to think it's a meson bug. 
>> When running 'ninja install' I get the following:
>>
>> Building documentation for gio
>> ERROR: Error in gtkdoc helper script:
>>
>> ERROR: ['/usr/bin/gtkdoc-scangobj', 
>> '--types=/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/docs/reference/gio/gio.types', 
>> '--module=gio', '--run=', 
>> '--cflags=-I/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gio 
>> -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/gio -pthread 
>> -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gmodule 
>> -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/gmodule -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/. 
>> -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/. -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/glib 
>> -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/glib -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gobject 
>> -I/home/kbrown/src/glib/gobject -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing 
>> -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -Wduplicated-branches -Wimplicit-fallthrough 
>> -Wmisleading-indentation -Wstrict-prototypes -Wunused 
>> -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-bad-function-cast -Wno-cast-function-type 
>> -Wno-pedantic -Wno-format-zero-length 
>> -Werror=declaration-after-statement -Werror=format=2 
>> -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=init-self 
>> -Werror=missing-include-dirs -Werror=missing-prototypes 
>> -Werror=pointer-arith', 
>> '--ldflags=-L/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gio 
>> -Wl,-rpath,/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gio 
>> -L/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/glib 
>> -Wl,-rpath,/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/glib 
>> -L/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gobject 
>> -Wl,-rpath,/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gobject 
>> -L/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gmodule 
>> -Wl,-rpath,/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/gmodule -lgio-2.0 
>> -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lz -pthread -lintl -lpcre 
>> -liconv -lffi', '--cc=cc', '--ld=cc', 
>> '--output-dir=/home/kbrown/src/glib/cygbuild/docs/reference/gio'] 
>> failed with status 127
>>
>> I'll see what I can figure out, but as I said, it doesn't look to me 
>> like a meson issue.
> 
> This looks like the problem that my second patch was supposed to fix, so 
> I guess I've messed up somewhere.
> 
> (gtkdoc-scangobj builds and runs a executable linked with the gio shared 
> library.  meson needs to set PATH appropriately so that shared library 
> can be loaded)
> 

Hmmm.. I can't reproduce this.

Using my meson 0.54.2-2 package, I managed to build glib (from the 
2.64.3 tag in the glib repository) configured with -Dgtk_doc=true.