I've been looking at glib-2.58. They are moving to meson/ninja although
the autotools build can still be made to work.
I have a couple of issues about the new build.
First, the latest package does not have the prebuilt man pages. It does
have an option:
option('man',
type : 'boolean',
value : false,
description : 'generate man pages (requires xsltproc)')
ninja does create the man pages and 'ninja install' installs them.
Should we make xsltproc recommended and use -Dman=yes?
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Second, there is one test (ninja test) that fails: gdatetime. This has
a couple of issues. First it assumes that /etc/localhost is a symbolic
link. It fails if it is a regular file. It appears that this is built
into glib and is not a test issue. If I set up localtime on /etc like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 3 12:35 /etc/localtime -> localtime.cdt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3585 Aug 13 13:15 /etc/localtime.cdt
then all the subtests in gdatetime except one pass. I used cdt for
right now since I'm in the CDT timezone. If we change localhost to be like
localhost -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your TZ>
then it breaks our support of a separate /usr directory. I've noticed
this problem before in some display environments where the panel clock
always seems to be at UTC unless the symlink hack above is used.
There is also one other line in the gdatetime.c file that needs to be
commented out to get all glib tests to pass.
I'm inclined to just state that gdatetime fails.
Is that the best way to handle this test failure?
-- Bruce
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