Re: [Gimp-developer] Building GIMP master fails because of missing gobject-introspection
Ell via gimp-developer-list <[email protected]>
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On 7/29/19 11:14 AM, Steve Pricks wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to build GIMP master (commit f74320d4dc5e92351001cd44c4380c95725eccd5). > Configure failed with this message: > > checking for gobject-introspection... configure: error: gobject-introspection-1.0 is not installed > > Configure failed or did not finish! > > It also happened when I pass the parameter --enable-introspection=no > Interestingly having the Debian package gobject-introspection (version 1.58) installed didn't have an effect. > After installing the package libgirepository1.0-dev it works, but it seems that the handling of the parameter --enable-introspection=no is buggy (or if introspection is required, then it should not be possible to disable it). Introspection is indeed required to build master right now, and can't be disabled. Autoconf simply ignores unsupported --enable-foo flags by default, so you didn't get an error for the flag (but you should have gotten a warning at the beginning of the output). -- Ell _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list