Re: pkg/53933: gobject introspection linker issue

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53933; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	martin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/53933: gobject introspection linker issue
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 14:56:46 +0100

 On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 01:25:00PM +0000, Benny Siegert wrote:
 >  On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 7:00 PM <martin%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >  > ** (process:12576): CRITICAL **: 13:00:44.994: Failed to get connection to xfconfd: Could not connect: No such file or directory
 >  >
 >  > ** (process:22964): CRITICAL **: 13:00:58.521: Failed to get connection to xfconfd: Could not connect: No such file or directory
 >  
 >  Is this on a machine that has XFCE installed? I noticed that a number
 >  of issues with gobject-introspection (e.g. being unhappy without
 >  DISPLAY) happen because it tries to connect to xfconfd (the XFCE
 >  config daemon) and if that fails, tries unsuccessfully to start a user
 >  DBus session. Maybe the fix is making it not do that.
 
 It was building some xfce4 dependency - so probably something relevant
 is already installed.
 
 However, the "calling weak symbol" should never be possible, so something is
 seriously wrong here.
 
 Martin