Build failing

[aleixpol]

Failing here, didn't have time to investigate, hopefully someone familiar with gir can figure it out.

FAILED: src/AppStream-1.0.gir 
cd /home/apol/build-devel/frameworks/appstream/src && /usr/bin/g-ir-scanner --identifier-prefix=As --symbol-prefix=as --warn-all --add-include-path=/home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src --namespace=AppStream --nsversion=1.0 --no-libtool --library=appstream --include=GObject-2.0 --include=Gio-2.0 --pkg-export=appstream --c-include appstream.h --cflags-begin -I/home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/ -DAS_COMPILATION --cflags-end /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-utils.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-xmldata.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-yamldata.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-desktop-entry.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-cache-file.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-distro-extras.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-stemmer.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-spdx.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-metadata.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-component.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-enums.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-provided.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-bundle.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-pool.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-category.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-distro-details.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-screenshot.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-image.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-release.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-checksum.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-validator.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-validator-issue.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-icon.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-translation.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-suggested.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-content-rating.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-launchable.c /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/appstream.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-utils.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-spdx.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-metadata.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-component.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-pool.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-enums.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-provided.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-bundle.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-category.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-distro-details.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-screenshot.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-image.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-release.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-checksum.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-validator.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-validator-issue.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-icon.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-translation.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-suggested.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-content-rating.h /home/apol/devel/frameworks/appstream/src/as-launchable.h --output /home/apol/build-devel/frameworks/appstream/src/AppStream-1.0.gir
/home/apol/build-devel/frameworks/appstream/src/tmp-introspectzfwe5gcr/AppStream-1.0: symbol lookup error: /home/apol/build-devel/frameworks/appstream/src/tmp-introspectzfwe5gcr/AppStream-1.0: undefined symbol: as_content_rating_get_type
Command '['/home/apol/build-devel/frameworks/appstream/src/tmp-introspectzfwe5gcr/AppStream-1.0', '--introspect-dump=/home/apol/build-devel/frameworks/appstream/src/tmp-introspectzfwe5gcr/functions.txt,/home/apol/build-devel/frameworks/appstream/src/tmp-introspectzfwe5gcr/dump.xml']' returned non-zero exit status 127.

[ximion]

Hmm, is your build environment clean? (remove the build folder and try again)
Could also be that for whatever reason the build process tries to link with an old libappstream (should never happen...)

[aleixpol]

Yes, I removed the find . -name "*appstream*" | xargs rm on the prefix and now it builds. It seems like the install prefix libraries take preference when running gir?

[ximion]

So far that never happened to me... LD_PRELOAD stuff takes preference, the system wide stuff however so far never did...
Odd thing...

I might be switching the project to use the Meson build system at some point, which will change things again and likely make the build process simpler than it is today (likely unrelated to this bug though).

[purinchu]

While I realize this has already been closed, I had the same issue. But I think it should be reported against gobject-introspection, as even manually running that program with what appears to be the appropriate command line gives build errors if an old libappstream.so is present in the install prefix (at least, I think that's where my old library was). Maybe the --no-libtool flag that appstream uses has something to do with it, I didn't test with the use of --libtool or playing around with --library-path.