Re: pkg/51266: devel/gobject-introspection build fails on i386-7.99.32

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51266; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: Anthony Mallet <tho%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/51266: devel/gobject-introspection build fails on i386-7.99.32
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 15:57:46 -0500 (CDT)

 On Fri, 26 May 2017, Anthony Mallet wrote:
 
 > Not sure if you're still fighting with that. I had more or less the
 > same issue, upgrading from 7.99.34 to -current.
 
 Yes, I still have this problem on all i386/amd64 machines running
 current.  (Haven't tried macppc in some time.)
 
 > I could fix the build of gobject-introspection during a
 > pkg_rolling_replace with the following trick :
 > 
 > 1. When gobject-introspection fails, look in /usr/pkg/lib/gio/modules/
 >    You may see libraries from packages that have not been rebuilt
 >    yet, because they depend (indirectly) on gobject-introspection
 > 
 > 2. pkg_delete -f the packages containing the files in question
 > 
 > 3. go ahead with pkg_rolling-replace that will most probably rebuild
 >    the -f deleted packages due to dependencies.
 > 
 > Not a clean solution but at least a workaround ...
 
 Interesting.
 
 Your workaround might explain why completely nuking all traces of packages
 and starting from scratch generally succeeds (on amd64 at least).
 
 To be clear, my problem begins with failing to build
 "gobject-introspection" itself, nevermind other packages that require
 it.  For the one package I can't workaround with an "-introspection" option,
 installing "gobject-introspection" built for 7.1_STABLE works.
 
 Any thoughts on why starting with a TNF snapshot build works, but after
 updating to my own local release builds it fails?
 
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