Re: [gnome-love] build problem of Gobject-Introspection

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 22:06 +1030, Craig Keogh wrote:
> > I have built gnome-2.30 using JHbuild (although I've skipped some 
> > modules which failed), but it instantly crashes when I load it so
> I'm 
> > trying to rebuild it. It now fails at gobject-introspection, at
> which it 
> > didn't fail before. The output line containing the probable reason
> is as 
> > following:
> >
> > /src/gnome2/gobject-introspection-0.6.7/gir/tmp-introspectlKXYag/Gio-2.0.o:(.data+0x350): 
> > undefined reference to `g_utf8_input_stream_get_type'
>
> I had the same problem. It was a while ago. From memory, I fixed the
> problem by:
> rm -rf /opt/gnome2 

This is usually caused by confused .la files, causing you to link
against your libraries in /usr/lib instead of your jhbuild-built one.
They aren't really needed (they are meant to just speed things up). If
you just delete your .la files then you'll probably solve the problem,
though some rebuilding might be necessary. You might even need to
delete .la files from /usr/lib/, installed by your distro's packages.

It's a very common problem.

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