gobject-introspection build error

[macsforever2000@…]

I'm getting a build error with gobject-introspection.

:info:build Traceback (most recent call last):
:info:build   GICOMP freetype2-2.0.gir
:info:build   File "../tools/g-ir-scanner", line 45, in <module>
:info:build     sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv))
:info:build   File "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 392, in scanner_main
:info:build     transformer = create_transformer(namespace, options)
:info:build   File "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 274, in create_transformer
:info:build     accept_unprefixed=options.accept_unprefixed)
:info:build   File "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10/giscanner/transformer.py", line 49, in __init__
:info:build     self._cachestore = CacheStore()
:info:build   File "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10/giscanner/cachestore.py", line 70, in __init__
:info:build     self._directory = _get_cachedir()
:info:build   File "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10/giscanner/cachestore.py", line 59, in _get_cachedir
:info:build     os.mkdir(scannerdir, 0755)
:info:build OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/frank/.cache/g-ir-scanner'
:info:build make[2]: *** [GLib-2.0.gir] Error 1
:info:build make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
:info:build make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10/gir'
:info:build make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
:info:build make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10'
:info:build make: *** [all] Error 2
:info:build make: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10'
:info:build shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_gnome_gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.9.10" && /usr/bin/make -j2 -w all " returned error 2
:error:build Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed

The file "/Users/frank/.cache/g-ir-scanner" does not exist.

[raimue@…]

Cc Me!

[raimue@…]

This will only happen with trunk. Dropping to user nobody does not allow to write to $HOME. I wonder if we should export a writable location for situations like this or if this needs to be patched not to do write to the home directory.

[jmr@…]

You can still configure macportsuser in 1.9, trunk just changed the default. I'd prefer that port build processes didn't write to my home dir in any case.

[jeremyhu@…]

Yeah, that is a bad idea in general. Please just update the port to not write to $HOME

[jeremyhu@…]

So this is starting to become a big nuisance. What is the status of this? Is there an upstream bug for this? Is there a "no cache" option for GICOMP that we should be using?

[macsforever2000@…]

I still see this issue with the latest macports from trunk and version 0.10.2 of gobject-introspection.

[jeremyhu@…]

Cc Me!

[jeremyhu@…]

Disabled introspection in json-glib in r78266 to workaround this.

[jeremyhu@…]

A patch to disable the cache with an environment variable is present here:

​https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649054

[macsforever2000@…]

This builds for me with the latest version 0.10.6 and macports 2.0.99.

[jeremyhu@…]

Re-enabled introspection in json-glib in r81554 now that this is fixed.

[billmcn@…]

This just started happening for me. OS X version 10.7.2 (Lion), Mac Ports 2.0.3, gobject-introspection @0.10.6_0 (active).

I tried to uninstall gobject-introspection and saw the following error:

> sudo port uninstall gobject-introspection
Password:
--->  The following versions of gobject-introspection are currently installed:
--->      gobject-introspection @0.9.12_0
--->      gobject-introspection @0.10.2_0
--->      gobject-introspection @0.10.6_0 (active)
Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version as recorded in the port registry.

Tried running "sudo port upgrade gobject-inspection" and saw the original registry error.

I was, however, able to delete the remaining gobject-introspection. After doing this am I able to continue upgrading my packages.

[jeremyhu@…]

Yeah, it looks like the fix got dropped.

[jeremyhu@…]

Actually, it looks like it got changed from disabled by default to disabled with an envvar set.

Fixed in base with r87905.