{devel}[GCCcore/13.3.0] GObject-Introspection v1.80.1

[Flamefire]

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This is a bit tricky as version 1.79+ does no longer install the GIR files of GLib, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/issues/517

The suggested solution is:

1. build GLib with -Dintrospection=disabled
2. build gobject-introspection
3. rebuild GLib with -Dintrospection=enabled

However I don't see how we can do that:
Cairo is a dependency of gobject-introspection and depends on glib. So we cannot get rid the temporary GLib as it is used as a dependency already and introducing both to the toolchain won't work. Ideally the temporary GLib would just be a build-dependency to gobject-introspection but then Cairo would be missing GLib or gobject-introspection would be missing cairo

--> Add a patch to revert the change that disabled installing the required file and hope that in the future there will be a better solution. E.g. they want to merge both projects.

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[SebastianAchilles]

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@boegelbot please test @ jsc-zen3

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@boegelbot please test @ generoso

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[SebastianAchilles]

lgtm

[SebastianAchilles]

Going in, thanks @Flamefire!

[SebastianAchilles]

Going in, thanks @Flamefire!

[jhgoebbert]

This patch will not provide all typelibs known from the past as you can see from this comparison:

GObject-Introspection/1.80.1-GCCcore-13.3.0/lib/girepository-1.0/

cairo-1.0.typelib  DBusGLib-1.0.typelib    freetype2-2.0.typelib  Vulkan-1.0.typelib  xfixes-4.0.typelib  xlib-2.0.typelib DBus-1.0.typelib   fontconfig-2.0.typelib  GIRepository-2.0.typelib  libxml2-2.0.typelib  win32-1.0.typelib   xft-2.0.typelib     xrandr-1.3.typelib GL-1.0.typelib

GObject-Introspection/1.76.0-GCCcore-12.3.0/lib/girepository-1.0/

cairo-1.0.typelib  DBusGLib-1.0.typelib    freetype2-2.0.typelib  GLib-2.0.typelib     GObject-2.0.typelib  Vulkan-1.0.typelib  xfixes-4.0.typelib  xlib-2.0.typelib DBus-1.0.typelib   fontconfig-2.0.typelib  GIRepository-2.0.typelib Gio-2.0.typelib  GL-1.0.typelib            GModule-2.0.typelib  libxml2-2.0.typelib  win32-1.0.typelib   xft-2.0.typelib     xrandr-1.3.typelib

1.80.1 is missing:

• Gio-2.0.typelib
• GLib-2.0.typelib
• GObject-2.0.typelib
• GModule-2.0.typelib

You only get this extras if you rebuild GLib with -Dintrospection=enabled

Without this rebuild the following test (through PyGObject) will fail when using:
python -c 'import gi; gi.require_version("GLib", "2.0")'

[Flamefire]

You are right, this PR just installs the *.gir files, that are required to build dependent software, but not the *.typelib files. I identified the commit that disables installing those and created a patch that reverts that part too such that our EC installs both the gir and the typelib files. Try #22309

You are also right that (re)building GLib with -Dintrospection=enabled is the intended way to get those files. However we cannot easily do that in Easybuild due to the cyclic dependency

[jhgoebbert]

Thank you providing a fix so quickly in #22309
It works! (checked the directory GObject-Introspection/1.80.1-GCCcore-13.3.0/lib/girepository-1.0/ and tested with xpra)