Re: Fwd: Compile of glycin failed

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Am 24.03.26 um 09:55 schrieb nicP ([email protected] via blfs-support
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> Le 24/03/2026 à 09:08, Rainer Fiebig a écrit :
>> Am 24.03.26 um 01:25 schrieb Stephan Hunker ([email protected]
>> via blfs-support Mailing List):
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 8:12 AM Manfred Hahn <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>> Von: Manfred Hahn <[email protected]>
>>>> Date: Fr., 20. März 2026 um 15:07 Uhr
>>>> Subject: Compile of glycin failed
>>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>> On my way to gtk3 I'm stuck compiling glycin. Logfile attached.
>>>>> The mentioned command 'rustc -vV' works on the command line and gives
>>>>> the following output:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>> I can not determine the directory which cannot be used or created by
>>>> meson.
>>>>> Any help wellcome
>>>>
>>>> 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)
>>>>
>>>> Don't really know why this make a difference, but it works.
>>>>
>>>> Manfred
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>>>
>>> Interestingly, I ran into this issue as well on the path to building
>>> lightdm (which requires Exo, which requires GTK, which requires
>>> gdk-pixbuf). In BLFS 13.0, you have a circular dependency with
>>> glycin, in
>>> which you have to build gdk twice - once before, and once after
>>> installing
>>> glycin.
>>>
>>> When I tried to install glycin, I got the error you described. I
>>> could not
>>> figure out how to fix it at the time (I was also in an X session,
>>> icewm at
>>> the time using xterm).
>>>
>>> I realized that in BLFS 12.4, glycin is not required for gdk-pixbuf,
>>> so my
>>> workaround was to install the prior version of gdk-pixbuf, 2.42.12. This
>>> worked great.
>>
>> Glycin is not strictly "required" for gdk-pixbuf, only "recommended".
>> You could build gdk-pixbuf without glycin by using option
>>
>>     -Dglycin=disabled       \
>>
>> The description for glycin is "The glycin package contains a sandboxed
>> and extendable image loading framework."  Well, whatever that means, I
>> never needed it.
>>
>> Rainer
>>
> True. But with gdk-pixbuf built without glycin, gtkmm-3.24.10 failed to
> build. I didn't keep record of the errors reported, but they were
> related to gdk-pixbuf.

Glycin is not listed as a dependency for gtkmm.  It may lurk somewhere
in the dependency-chain but I don't have time to explore that.

Rainer


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