Re: glib-2/gobject-introspection: what is a "gi-build"?

Am 20.08.25 um 10:14 schrieb Alan Ianson ([email protected] via
blfs-support Mailing List):
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:40:21 +0200
> "Rainer Fiebig" ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Please give me a clue: what is a "gi-build"?  I couldn't find anything
>> about it in the book, above mentioned packages'
>> build-options/documentation or on the internet.
>>
>> And shouldn't something obviously arcane like this be explained in the
>> book, when used?
> 
> The gi-build command is used to build and install gobject introspection
> so that the gobject introspection data can be built in the following
> step.
Thanks.  I think I simply misunderstood the build-instructions:
"gi-build" is not a build-option but the build-directory created by
	meson setup gobject-introspection-1.84.0 gi-build

And so
	ninja -C gi-build
just tells ninja to change into dir "gi-build" and do its work there.

Mystery solved.  Live and learn.  Have I ever mentioned that I don't
like meson/ninja/cmake? ;)

Thanks again.

Rainer

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