Homebrew on OSX: error: GIO 2.38.0 or later is required

[craignied]

Compiling with Homebrew on OSX:

checking for gio-2.0 >= 2.38.0... no
configure: error: GIO 2.38.0 or later is required.

GIO isn't a module that I can find on Homebrew. Is it part of something else?

Thanks in advance

[graahnul-grom]

@craignied Thank you for reporting this. GIO is a part of glib. We recently
bumped minimum required version of glib to 2.38.0. Do you have the glib
package installed?

[craignied]

I have glib 2.60.5 installed:

brew info glib
glib: stable 2.60.5 (bottled)
Core application library for C
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/
/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.60.5 (429 files, 15.2MB) *
Poured from bottle on 2019-07-13 at 20:19:37
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/glib.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: meson ✘, ninja ✘, pkg-config ✔
Required: gettext ✔, libffi ✔, pcre ✔, python ✔
==> Analytics
install: 280,229 (30 days), 837,113 (90 days), 2,289,367 (365 days)
install_on_request: 15,309 (30 days), 42,956 (90 days), 105,085 (365 days)
build_error: 0 (30 days)

[graahnul-grom]

Could you please try the following command:

 $ pkg-config --libs gio-2.0

[craignied]

pkg-config --libs gio-2.0
-L/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.60.5/lib -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl

Still getting

checking for gio-2.0 >= 2.38.0... no
configure: error: GIO 2.38.0 or later is required.

[graahnul-grom]

What is exactly the ./configure command line you are using?
It would be helpful if you attach the full output of ./configure
and the generated config.log file.
You could also try to disable the GIO check (just comment out two lines in configure.ac):

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9923799ea..40fd51ed1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, [glib-2.0 >= 2.38.0], ,
   AC_MSG_ERROR([GLib 2.38.0 or later is required.]))
 AC_DEFINE([G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED], [1], [Disable deprecated GLib features])
 
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GIO, [gio-2.0 >= 2.38.0], ,
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([GIO 2.38.0 or later is required.]))
+#PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GIO, [gio-2.0 >= 2.38.0], ,
+#  AC_MSG_ERROR([GIO 2.38.0 or later is required.]))
 
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, [gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.0], ,
   AC_MSG_ERROR([GTK+ 2.24.0 or later is required.]))

gio_off.diff.txt

[craignied]

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checking for gio-2.0 >= 2.38.0... no
configure: error: GIO 2.38.0 or later is required.

[craignied]

Commented out gio, and now it's not finding gtk:
...
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.38.0... yes
checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.0... no
configure: error: GTK+ 2.24.0 or later is required.

brew info gtk
gtk+: stable 2.24.32 (bottled), HEAD
GUI toolkit
https://gtk.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/gtk+/2.24.32_3 (1,194 files, 59.9MB) *
Poured from bottle on 2019-07-13 at 20:21:43
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gtk+.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: gobject-introspection ✘, pkg-config ✔
Required: atk ✔, gdk-pixbuf ✔, hicolor-icon-theme ✔, pango ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: 18,049 (30 days), 31,289 (90 days), 119,651 (365 days)
install_on_request: 3,799 (30 days), 7,029 (90 days), 24,049 (365 days)
build_error: 0 (30 days)

[graahnul-grom]

Let's start from scratch:

1. cd to lepton-eda source directory
2. git clean -x -f -d
3. comment out GIO check in configure.ac
4. ./autogen.sh
5. ./configure

If it fails, please attach the config.log file.

[craignied]

Scratch is the same as above 😊

config.log

[graahnul-grom]

:) Please install libffi and try again.

[graahnul-grom]

@craignied I found this thread where a similar problem with GTK (actually, withlibffi) is discussed.
Please check the brew info libffi output. You may need to set $PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

[graahnul-grom]

In the issue mentioned above they got exactly the same message I see in the config.log:

Package 'libffi', required by 'gobject-2.0', not found

[craignied]

We've moved forward! I had libffi installed, but I set:

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"

./configure
Threw this error:

configure: error: The update-desktop-database tool could not be found. Ensure it is
installed and in your path, or configure with
--disable-update-xdg-database.

I poked around and couldn't figure out how to install that, so I tried
./configure --disable-update-xdg-database

And it made a Makefile! When I issued a make, it did a bunch of things but finally:
...
Making all in scheme-api
Updating ./version.texi
MAKEINFO lepton-scheme.info
lepton-scheme.texi:5: warning: unrecognized encoding name utf-8'. MAKEINFO lepton-scheme.html makeinfo: unrecognized option --css-ref=lepton-scheme.css'
Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.
make[3]: *** [lepton-scheme.html] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Ideas?

config.log

[vzh]

I've just googled for makeinfo unrecognized encoding name. The very first link is this. Could it be of any help? Especially the advice to use brew link texinfo --force?

[graahnul-grom]

configure: error: The update-desktop-database tool could not be found. Ensure it is
installed and in your path, or configure with --disable-update-xdg-database

brew install desktop-file-utils

[craignied]

@vzh thanks, I had done that previously.
@graahnul-grom thanks super, it now compiles completely. I'm still getting errors with make, though. I've attached the output of make. Could the commented out GIO be the problem?
makelog.txt

[craignied]

I figured out how to get rid of all the Warning: Failed to set locale category LC_...s with
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

So this is a little cleaner make log
make.log

Essentially it's failing with:

Making all in scheme-api
  MAKEINFO lepton-scheme.html
makeinfo: unrecognized option `--css-ref=lepton-scheme.css'

Thoughts?

[vzh]

Googling it a bit, I found that the option --css-ref is available in makeinfo at least since version 4.13. First you have to make sure your makeinfo supports the option. If it's outdated, you need to update it.

[graahnul-grom]

@craignied You're almost there. Don't let the issue with makeinfo get in the way:
please revert this commit.

diff --git a/docs/scheme-api/Makefile.am b/docs/scheme-api/Makefile.am
index 39a1f679a..51e504d08 100644
--- a/docs/scheme-api/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/scheme-api/Makefile.am
@@ -1,13 +1,2 @@
 info_TEXINFOS = lepton-scheme.texi
 
-AM_MAKEINFOHTMLFLAGS = --css-ref=lepton-scheme.css
-
-EXTRA_DIST = lepton-scheme.css
-
-html-local:
-   $(MKDIR_P) $(builddir)/lepton-scheme.html/
-   cp -fv $(srcdir)/lepton-scheme.css $(builddir)/lepton-scheme.html/
-
-all-local: html
-
-install-data-local: install-html

[craignied]

Thanks @graahnul-grom!

Do you know why this might be happening:

git revert 381c17b
error: could not revert 381c17b... docs/scheme-api: Add CSS file for HTML output.
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add ' or 'git rm '
hint: and commit the result with 'git commit'

[graahnul-grom]

Just delete all, but the first line ("info_TEXINFOS = lepton-scheme.texi") from
docs/scheme-api/Makefile.am, then do git commit. The commit message
will look like Revert "docs/scheme-api: Add CSS file for HTML output."

[craignied]

It did make without error, @graahnul-grom! Woot! OK, big question: coming from geda-gaf, is there a place to learn about functionality? Like, are the names of the commands different, and are the commands themselves different?

Many thanks for your help!

[craignied]

I have my first bug report! I was trying to open an old schematic, when it crashed with:
Assertion failed: (s->stack->next != NULL), function CGGStackRestore, file /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/CoreGraphics/CoreGraphics-1260.2/CoreGraphics/Context/CGGStack.c, line 77.
[1] 24347 abort lepton-schematic

[graahnul-grom]

@craignied Thank you, congratulations on getting through the configure and make.
Could this bug be related to already reported crash in #76?
What version of mac os you are using?

[vzh]

@craignied, could you please answer a couple of questions:

• are you able to work on new schematics with lepton-schematic at all?
• could you provide us with the schematic that triggers the crash, even with some restricted variant, to let the members of the project who uses macs to check what's wrong.

And, since that seems to be another issue (is it? do the tools work on your system at all?), please open another issue to let the people interested in it to concentrate on the topic. Then we could close this issue.

BTW, if you found a good recipe of how to make lepton on mac using brew, please post it here. We could add it to our wiki then to help other users.

Thanks in advance.

[graahnul-grom]

Yes, since this issue is about building lepton on OSX, it's better to move the run-time
problem to a new issue. However, we didn't address the GIO and makeinfo
issues yet.

[graahnul-grom]

GIO check was added to configure.ac in commit 1b78564 in response to
launchpad.net bug report 1258217: gschem >1.7.2 won't build in Cygwin.
In the comment number 5 there it was suggested that simply adding $(GIO_LIBS) to
liblepton/src/Makefile.am is enough.
I'll try to check it with cygwin.

[graahnul-grom]

I've managed to build lepton-eda on cygwin (windows 7 x64 in virtualbox,
guile 2.0) both with and without GIO check.

[graahnul-grom]

According to various web search results, the run-time bug is related to cairo
rendering code.
@craignied Could you please try to export some schematics to png and svg
formats using lepton-cli export? Will it crash, too? It would be helpful if you can
obtain a backtrace (there should be crash log files in
~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ on OSX, IIUC).