Would it help to add geary to the gnome-apps-packagegroup only if introspection is enabled ? Its already  done like this e.g. for colord: https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/a558d51fecda3e66ace21d02b57ab61bf122fdc1/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb#L738 Am 23.01.22 um 14:18 schrieb Markus Volk: > > But what you want is literally fighting against upstream design > decision. This always brings with it additional maintenance burden and > i don't see the big win of this. > > Theres already plenty of gnome  recipes that require introspection to > be enabled: > > ./meta-multimedia/recipes-support/libmediaart/libmediaart-2.0_1.9.5.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/tepl/tepl_6.00.0.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon_41.0.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gdm/gdm_41.0.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/tracker/tracker_3.2.1.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/tracker/tracker-miners_3.2.1.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/amtk/amtk_5.3.1.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop_41.2.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-shell/gnome-shell_41.2.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gjs/gjs_1.70.0.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-tweaks/gnome-tweaks_40.0.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit_40.1.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/libgweather/libgweather_40.0.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-gnome/recipes-support/colord-gtk/colord-gtk_0.2.0.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION > = "" > ./meta-oe/recipes-support/colord/colord.bb:GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" > > And they all just set > > REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES += "gobject-introspection-data" > > Am 23.01.22 um 14:00 schrieb Alexander Kanavin: >> You need to add a patch that guards introspection with a meson >> option, submit the patch upstream, and then add the patch to the >> recipe, with a link (in the patch file) to the upstream submission. >> >> Alex >> >> On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 13:14, Markus Volk > > wrote: >> >> yes, but folks is one of that gnome projects that made >> introspection mandatory. I can't find an option to disable it >> with the meson buildsystem: >> >> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/folks/-/blob/master/meson_options.txt >> >> >> So i'm really unsure what to do here. >> >> But i have added some more usable PACKAGECONFIG options and sent >> a patchv3 >> >> Am 22.01.22 um 20:54 schrieb Alexander Kanavin: >>> Gobject introspection is inherently hostile to cross compilation >>> environments as it requires running a cross-compiled binary with >>> the qemu emulator. That does not always work, and if it does >>> not, your build will break. So there must be a way to turn it >>> off when it happens. >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 20:29, Markus Volk >> > wrote: >>> >>> I tried to make the 'folks' backends buildable and it turned >>> out, that >>> there are some more places where vala introspection is missing. >>> >>> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/461c04657c3151629b503fe134e9d672520aacbb/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/evolution-data-server/evolution-data-server.bb#L34 >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/566049b4f1ddc049c1f89a5838d1a71bb429faa3/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-glib_0.24.1.bb#L17 >>> >>> >>> >>> Most gnome projects meanwhile make gobject-introspection >>> mandatory and i >>> can really feel why they are doing so for two important reasons. >>> >>> First it is just mandatory if you want to be able to build >>> the whole >>> gnome universe and second it is in my option one of the >>> greatest >>> features of gtk to be able to write code for it in almost >>> every language >>> available. This should not be an optional feature so people >>> could rely >>> on it. >>> >>> In both recipes introspection is disabled by default and >>> dependent on >>> 'GI_DATA_ENABLED=true'. Wouldn't it be a good idea to just >>> enable >>> Introspection by default? We already inherit >>> gobject-introspection anyway. >>> >>> There are also some more issues in libgdata and libical with >>> introspection i was able to fix locally. Will send patches >>> for it if >>> it'll be ok making introspection mandatory. >>> >>> Am 20.01.22 um 21:36 schrieb Markus Volk: >>> > Signed-off-by: Markus Volk >> > >>> > --- >>> >   .../folks/folks_0.15.4.bb       >>>        | 24 +++++++++++++++++++ >>> >   1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) >>> >   create mode 100644 >>> meta-gnome/recipes-connectivity/folks/folks_0.15.4.bb >>> >>> > >>> > diff --git >>> a/meta-gnome/recipes-connectivity/folks/folks_0.15.4.bb >>> >>> b/meta-gnome/recipes-connectivity/folks/folks_0.15.4.bb >>> >>> > new file mode 100644 >>> > index 000000000..b4ca551c8 >>> > --- /dev/null >>> > +++ >>> b/meta-gnome/recipes-connectivity/folks/folks_0.15.4.bb >>> >>> > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ >>> > +SUMMARY = "Folks is a contact aggregation library." >>> > +LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1" >>> > +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = >>> "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1" >>> > + >>> > +DEPENDS = " \ >>> > +    glib-2.0 \ >>> > +    libgee \ >>> > +    libxml2 \ >>> > +    dbus-glib \ >>> > +    telepathy-glib \ >>> > +" >>> > + >>> > +GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson" >>> > + >>> > +# gobject-introspection is mandatory and cannot be configured >>> > +REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data" >>> > +GIR_MESON_OPTION = "" >>> > + >>> > +EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Deds_backend=false >>> -Dbluez_backend=false -Dofono_backend=false >>> -Dtelepathy_backend=false" >>> > + >>> > +inherit gnomebase gettext gobject-introspection vala >>> features_check >>> > + >>> > +SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = >>> "e71099afc9e88fad4e757ae134bc3fd63e12b901ad62b0ed5536afb79124af5f" >>> > + >>> >>> >>> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. > View/Reply Online (#95018): https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/95018 > Mute This Topic: https://lists.openembedded.org/mt/88611345/3618223 > Group Owner: openembedded-devel+owner@lists.openembedded.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/unsub [f_l_k@t-online.de] > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >