Re: Compile of glycin failed

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On 3/24/26 2:59 AM, nicP ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
> Le 24/03/2026 à 01:25, Stephan Hunker a écrit :
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 8:12 AM Manfred Hahn <blfs- 
>> [email protected] <mailto:blfs- 
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
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>>     ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>     Von: Manfred Hahn <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>     Date: Fr., 20. März 2026 um 15:07 Uhr
>>     Subject: Compile of glycin failed
>>     To: <[email protected] <mailto:blfs-
>>     [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.
>>
>> 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 for the root 
> user.
> 
> Install the package with the command :
> su -c "PATH=${PATH} ninja install"

Another option is to use 'sudo -E ...'

   -- Bruce


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