Help needed with gobject-introspection

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Jun 2 14:31:26 GMT 2020


On 6/2/2020 10:26 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> 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.

Did you run 'ninja install'?  The problem doesn't show up until you do that.

Ken


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