Re: Compile of glycin failed

"nicP" ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:59:15 +0100
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Le 24/03/2026 =C3=A0 01:25, Stephan Hunker a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 8:12=E2=80=AFAM Manfred Hahn <blfs-=20
> [email protected] <mailto:blfs-=20
> [email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Von: Manfred Hahn <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     Date: Fr., 20. M=C3=A4rz 2026 um 15:07 Uhr
>     Subject: Compile of glycin failed
>     To: <[email protected] <mailto:blfs-
>     [email protected]>>
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>      > Hi,
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>      > On my way to gtk3 I'm stuck compiling glycin. Logfile attached.
>      > The mentioned command 'rustc -vV' works on the command line and gi=
ves
>      > the following output:
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>      > rustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04) (for BLFS 12.4)
>      > binary: rustc
>      > commit-hash: 29483883eed69d5fb4db01964cdf2af4d86e9cb2
>      > commit-date: 2025-08-04
>      > host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>      > release: 1.89.0
>      > LLVM version: 20.1.8
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>      > I can not determine the directory which cannot be used or created
>     by meson.
>      > Any help wellcome
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>     Compile now succeeded!
>     What I did different:
>     - compile in text mode (before in XWindow)
>     - patches done in a separate step (before I had a batch file with
>     all commands)
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>     Don't really know why this make a difference, but it works.
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>     Manfred
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> Interestingly, I ran into this issue as well on the path to building=20
> lightdm (which requires Exo, which requires GTK, which requires gdk-=20
> pixbuf). In BLFS 13.0, you have a circular dependency with glycin, in=20
> which you have to build gdk twice - once before, and once after=20
> installing glycin.
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> When I tried to install glycin, I got the error you described. I could=20
> not figure out how to fix it at the time (I was also in an X session,=20
> icewm at the time using xterm).
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> I realized that in BLFS 12.4, glycin is not required for gdk-pixbuf, so=20
> my workaround was to install the prior version of gdk-pixbuf, 2.42.12.=20
> This worked great.
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> Good to know another solution exists for next time.
Hi,

I got the same issue. This is due to /opt/rustc/bin missing in the path=20
for the root user.

Install the package with the command :
su -c "PATH=3D${PATH} ninja install"

This worked for me.

Best regards.
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NicP
LFS ID 13025


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