Re: Failure to build current pkgsrc - gobject-introspection

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi John,

John D. Baker wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 14:29:39 +0200, Riccardo Mottola
> <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:
>
>> gobject-introspection fails:
>> [snip]
>> distutils.errors.DistutilsExecError: command 'cpp' terminated by signal 11
> (Re-routing this to pkgsrc-users@ where it belongs...)
>
> I've seen this many times before.  There is a short thread about it
> from the time just after the pkgsrc-2019Q3 quarterly branch.
>
>   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2019/10/23/msg029716.html
>
> And again noted here:
>
>   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2020/03/17/msg030712.html
>
> In short, you need to rebuild "glib2" and then "gobject-introspection"
> will rebuild properly (as well as a few other packages which use it).
>
>   $ cd /wherever/pkgsrc/devel/glib2
>   $ make replace package clean
>   $ cd
>   $ pkg_rolling-replace -u [etc...]
>

oh thank you. I di exactly that, in glib2, make replace && make clean.
glib2 was actually up to date (checked first) ... but this helped

pkg_rolling-replace is now churing out package after package again...


Riccardo