glib2(-devel): update to latest version 2.60.0

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The build system has changed to meson, with which I am not familiar.

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

OK, I'll take a look and (hopefully) submit a PR. I'm dealing with a lot other meson issues anyway.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The main difficulty is that we have a big patch and ed script for the autoconf system that implements support for the universal variant, which upstream was not interested in. We would need to investigate whether something similar needs to be done for the meson system.

Whatever you come up with, let's play with glib2-devel first and get it working before touching glib2.

pango-devel will also need to switch to meson, if you're interested in looking at that too. No patches there so it should be easier.

I know we have a meson portgroup, it's just unfamiliar territory for me.

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

Replying to ryandesign:

The main difficulty is that we have a big patch and ed script for the autoconf system that implements support for the universal variant, which upstream was not interested in. We would need to investigate whether something similar needs to be done for the meson system.

Whatever you come up with, let's play with glib2-devel first and get it working before touching glib2.

Agreed. patch-configure-switch-for-gappinfo-impl.diff is also autoconf specific so that needs to be ported to meson. I'm working on that now. Once I get it working without +universal, I'll post it as a WIP PR so we both can work on it. Once you agree to the changes, we can merge it as glib2-devel and see what happens :-).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to dbevans:

Agreed. patch-configure-switch-for-gappinfo-impl.diff is also autoconf specific so that needs to be ported to meson. I'm working on that now.

I believe upstream has already ported that to meson.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

See ​https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1263#note_241876

[chrstphrchvz (Christopher Chavez)]

This ticket's type should be set to "update"

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

There's an attempt to update the port here: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5808

I objected to it in November 2019 but it has been changed since then and I haven't tried to reevaluate it.

[Lord-Kamina (Gregorio Litenstein)]

In 58f6d4c7c04f308f3c8a1e7fea3fc08ff23d7ceb/macports-ports (master):

glib2-devel: Update to 2.62.5

Closes: #58261

I’ve updated this for meson; refreshed patch offsets and done my best to duplicate the x11/quartz selection logic. It builds and has been tested insofar as I built gdk-pixbuf, gtk3, gobject-introspection and several ports and apps depending on them and they all worked fine. As for tests proper, about 12 of them fail; a few of those were failing in 2.58.3 too; not sure if the new failures are my fault, new bugs, new tests or what.

P.S. @dbevans you can have your tarballs and eat them too. :P

[l2dy (Zero King)]

The main port glib2 has not been updated yet. Reopening.

[kencu (Ken)]

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