ERROR: can't resolve libraries to shared libraries: yaml

[bdouxx]

Hi

I have a problem to compil from git.
Can you help me?

git clone https://github.com/ximion/appstream.git
cd appstream
mkdir build
cd build
meson ..

The Meson build system
Version: 0.43.0
Source dir: /home/bdouxx/depots_git/appstream
Build dir: /home/bdouxx/depots_git/appstream/build
Build type: native build
Project name: AppStream
Native C compiler: cc (gcc 6.4.0)
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Configuring config.h using configuration
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Native dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.50.3
Native dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.50.3
Native dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.50.3
Native dependency gio-unix-2.0 found: YES 2.50.3
Native dependency libxml-2.0 found: YES 2.9.4
Native dependency yaml-0.1 found: YES 0.1.7
Library stemmer found: YES
Has header "libstemmer.h": YES
Native dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.50.3
WARNING: GLib compiled dependencies do not work reliably with
the current version of GLib. See the following upstream issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774368
Program g-ir-scanner found: YES (/usr/bin/g-ir-scanner)
Program g-ir-compiler found: YES (/usr/bin/g-ir-compiler)
Native dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: YES 1.50.0
Program xsltproc found: YES (/usr/bin/xsltproc)
Program sh found: YES (/bin/sh)
Build targets in project: 19
Found ninja-1.8.2 at /usr/bin/ninja

ninja

[59/60] Generating AppStream-1.0.gir with a custom command.
FAILED: src/AppStream-1.0.gir
/usr/bin/g-ir-scanner -pthread -I/usr/include/gobject-introspection-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/libffi-3.2.1/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include --no-libtool --namespace=AppStream --nsversion=1.0 --warn-all --output src/AppStream-1.0.gir --c-include=appstream.h -I/home/bdouxx/depots_git/appstream/src/ -I/home/bdouxx/depots_git/appstream/build/src/ -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I./src/.. -I../src/.. --filelist=/home/bdouxx/depots_git/appstream/build/src/appstream@sha/AppStream_1.0_gir_filelist --include=GObject-2.0 --include=Gio-2.0 --symbol-prefix=as --identifier-prefix=As --pkg-export=appstream --cflags-begin -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Wno-unused-parameter -DAS_COMPILATION -I/usr/include -I./src/.. -I../src/.. -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -pthread -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ --cflags-end -L/home/bdouxx/depots_git/appstream/build/src/ -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 -lyaml -lgobject-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lstemmer -L/home/bdouxx/depots_git/appstream/build/src/ --library appstream
ERROR: can't resolve libraries to shared libraries: yaml
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

ll /usr/lib64/libyaml*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 27 oct.  00:05 /usr/lib64/libyaml-0.so.2 -> libyaml-0.so.2.0.5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123K 27 oct.  00:05 /usr/lib64/libyaml-0.so.2.0.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 27 oct.  00:05 /usr/lib64/libyaml.so -> libyaml-0.so.2.0.5

[ximion]

This is a bug in gobject-introspection in combination with Meson. You would need to update gobject-introspection to >= 1.54 to make this work (unfortunately we can't easily check for versions of these binaries in Meson, although given this report I should really try to find a way).

If you can't update GIR to the bugfixed version and don't need introspection, you can also disable it with the respective flag (that's discouraged, but depending on what you want to do may work).