Fwd: Fwd: Compile of glycin failed

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Betreff: Re: [blfs-support] Fwd: Compile of glycin failed
Datum: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:49:05 +0100
Von: Maurice van der Stee <[email protected]>
An: Rainer Fiebig <[email protected]>

Rineeeeeeer,

I know you use that godawful  KDE, But if you would use GNOME, building
gdk-pixbuf without glycin will redenr it proactically useless.

So please stop sending people in the wrong direction. Or at least add
the qualification if you don't use gnome.

I'm getting a little tired of you private wars.
     On Tue, 2026-03-24 at 10:10 +0100, Rainer Fiebig wrote:  > Am
24.03.26 um 09:55 schrieb nicP ([email protected] via blfs-support
> Mailing List):
> > 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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