g-ir-scanner fails with python-3.8

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sun May 23 03:51:19 GMT 2021


On 23.05.2021 01:44, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2021 22:09:59 +0100, Jon Turney
>> On 19/05/2021 20:32, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Trying to build harfbuzz, I get the following python failure with
>>> python-3.8
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ....
>>>     File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/xmlwriter.py", line
>>> 46, in <module>
>>>       from giscanner._giscanner import collect_attributes
>>> ImportError: dynamic module does not define module export function
>>> (PyInit__giscanner)
>>
>> This a problem with the gobject-introspection package.
>>
>> _giscanner.dll is linked with python2, but the shbang names 'python', which is now python3.
>>
>> I have been working on rebuilding this package, but not quite there yet.
>>
>> You can work around this by fixing the shebang in /usr/bin/g-ir-scanner to explicitly name python3.
> 
> 
> Here are patches...
> 
> * 0002-gobject-introspection-1.54.1-4.patch:
>      python3.8 is used explicitly.
>        Shebangs of g-ir-doc-tool and g-ir-scanner are '/usr/bin/env python3.8'
>        _giscanner.dll is linked with libpython3.8.dll
> 
> * 0001-Fix-a-patch-for-giscanner-shlibs.py-to-pass-a-pep8-c.patch:
>      This has no effect while building.
>      But needed in order to avoid an error in a test
>        cygport gobject-introspection.cygport test
> 
> And with them, following build and test by cygport has succeeded
> both in x86_64 and i686, on my local machine.
> 
>    cygport gobject-introspection.cygport download finish all test
> 
> 
> But on scallywag, only x86_64 build is successful:
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=2841
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lem

are you sure of those patches ?

*** ERROR: patch 
0001-Fix-a-patch-for-giscanner-shlibs.py-to-pass-a-pep8-c.patch will not 
apply

it does not work alone or together with the old patch

can you send the gobject-introspection.cygport ?




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