Strange syntax error in header file about cinnamon-desktop HOT 11 OPEN

I knew that I was just testing.

So 4.4.3 also doesn't have the build fixes I linked - hopefully those take care of it for everyone.

from cinnamon-desktop.

By the filename, I think it could be related to an error that happens when I install Cinnamon next.

Couldn't find include 'CDesktopEnums-3.0.gir' (search path: '['.', '/usr/local/lib/muffin', 'gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0']')

Edit: could be some prefix changes, but I found that file in /usr/local/share/gir-1.0/CDesktopEnums-3.0.gir so I would add it to search paths.

from cinnamon-desktop.

The build message is fine - I've tried fixing it, only to break another aspect of the build completely.

As far as your install goes, you'd better uninstall that completely and re-build with a --prefix=/usr flag when you configure. The way these files are used it's not recommended to install to /usr/local, and I've seen and had a lot of broken systems because of this (this is something out of our control for the most part.) I highly recommend doing this.

You didn't mention which distro you're on, or what version of cinnamon-desktop you're trying to build, but it's fairly simple to build in debian or ubuntu using dpkg-buildpackage - which adds the proper prefixes for distro-specific installation.

from cinnamon-desktop.

@mtwebster I;m on Debian testing amd64, but I have a mixture of packages and libraries from unstable and experimental too. I started from stretch. So it's a mixed system; but I let aptitude sort things out. I have been getting a lot of coredumps from various processes lately though...

You're right, I've been running into problems with changing prefixes around and I think I messed up some of my system packages. Been trying to get them back with apt-get build-dep (which has no --force-reinstall option unfortunately?)...

I did get it to work finally though. I also switched to LXDM from LightDM.

Regards from a new Cinnamon user.

I like meson+ninja... I can pass DEST_DIR and CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH in my ENV and also use the traditional --prefix. I just need to work on reverting my system libraries to the system apt preferred candidates... I mention this cause I was also building Pidgin which as Meson+Ninja too and the builds of dependencies and the app and its components llike libpurple were succeeding until I started mixing prefixes for different components. And I found there's no option for suppressing GCC warnings about incomplete or unknown types. That's an issue for another repo I guess...Leaned my lesson.😟 I'll contribute when I have time and can review your source.

from cinnamon-desktop.

@mtwebster Oh...I found it strange that when I added your repository it changed the contents of my /etc/os-release file to say Linux Mint.That's inadvisable IMO.

from cinnamon-desktop.

@ageis are you still experiencing this issue?

from cinnamon-desktop.

Just hit this issue myself for the first time whilst compiling muffin 4.4.3 with cinnamon-desktop 4.4.1. Wasn't a problem using glib 2.56 and gobject-introspection 1.56, but with glib 2.64 and gobject-introspection 1.64, this happens. FreeBSD, so /usr/local hierarchy is required.

from cinnamon-desktop.

Removing --warn-error from the g-ir-scanner flags allows the build to continue. But this is probably a hack at best.

from cinnamon-desktop.

Both cinnamon-desktop and muffin should build fine with glib 2.64 and gobject-introspection 1.64, at least in ubuntu 20.04..

This is an issue in the last release version (muffin 4.4.2, ). There is no muffin 4.4.3 so I'm not sure where that comes from.

This should be fixed in git master. I never had an issue with the cinnamon-desktop build.

linuxmint/muffin@e0471c5
linuxmint/muffin@eaacd66
linuxmint/muffin@a452ec9

from cinnamon-desktop.

@mtwebster muffin 4.4.3 is in the maintenance branch.

from cinnamon-desktop.

I assume this issue is closed, yes?

from cinnamon-desktop.