Apparently, there has been a problem with the meson build since it was first added to gjs source code. It never installed the GjsPrivate-1.0.gir file, since the meson.build contained an incorrect invocation of gnome.generate_gir. meson didn't start choking on the incorrect passing of a boolean as install_dir_gir until some internal changes in recent meson versions. I have made a pull request upstream, taking the patch from here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/merge_requests/693 should fix the issue Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update to latest meson (at time of writing 0.60.2-r1) 2. try to emerge gjs Actual Results: fails with error 'meson.build:563:0: ERROR: "install_dir" must be specified when installing a target' Expected Results: gjs builds properly https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/merge_requests/693
Created attachment 756682 [details] build.log + emerge --info.txt Be good to give build.log even when it seems obvious, but I can reproduce so I'll just attach mine.
for future reference, is there some kind of easy bug report cli tool that adds all the things the reporter here attached to his cjs bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/827482 ? I've only reinstalled gentoo recently after 10 years being away :)
(In reply to Paul Mulders from comment #2) > for future reference, is there some kind of easy bug report cli tool that > adds all the things the reporter here attached to his cjs bug report > https://bugs.gentoo.org/827482 ? Unfortunately not that I know of, that other bug is from tinderbox semi-automated testing/reports -- these scripts aren't intended for normal reports. That aside, usually just the build.log and emerge --info is enough (preferably not in a tarball nor compressed so can be easily checked, but can compress if too large), or anything you feel is relevant to debug the particular issue (e.g. config.log with a ./configure error), but we'll ask if actually need something else.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b707dc5311d1c6a1eefb9f6bf28cf4d217136192 commit b707dc5311d1c6a1eefb9f6bf28cf4d217136192 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-11-29 00:51:59 +0000 Commit: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-11-29 00:55:53 +0000 dev-libs/gjs: backport fix for meson-0.60.2 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/827538 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> dev-libs/gjs/files/gjs-1.70.0-meson-0.60.2.patch | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ dev-libs/gjs/gjs-1.70.0.ebuild | 4 ++ 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+)
