Re: pkg/58911: x11/gtk3 missing atk-bridge-2.0 dependency

["Thomas Klausner via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/58911; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/58911: x11/gtk3 missing atk-bridge-2.0 dependency
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:07:48 +0100

 On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 07:20:32PM -0500, Rob Whitlock wrote:
 > Thanks for the pointer. It looks like atk-bridge-2.0.pc doesn't get installed unless at-spi2-core  was built with the dbus option, which I have disabled. So then gtk+ needs the gtk3-atk-bridge option disabled to build.
 > 
 > It would be nice if there were some error or warning alerting the user to why such a build of gtk+ is failing, but I will refrain from suggesting a patch because I'm not familiar enough with these programs to be confident in the fix.
 
 Ah yes.
 
 I don't like the dbus option for that package, but some other people
 think dbus is so bad that it's needed.
 
 The dbus option in at-spi2-core/options.mk is even commented to break
 stuff but perhaps it should yell louder:
 
 #
 # Make dbus optional. Note that turning dbus off does not actually
 # make at-spi2 work without dbus; it tells it to build only atk, and
 # makes this package approximately equivalent to the standalone atk
 # package that used to exist. This in turn avoids incurring a
 # mandatory dbus dependency for a large number of applications that
 # never previously had one.
 #
 # However, anything that actually needs at-spi2 will not work with
 # dbus turned off, and probably not build either.
 #
 
  Thomas