Libvips: [Bug report with solution] error: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
When I try to compile the libvips from the source code, I've encountered the following error:
parallel-tests: installing './test-driver'
libvips/Makefile.am:77: error: HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
............
./configure: line 3659: syntax error near unexpected token 1.30.0'
./configure: line 3659:GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK(1.30.0)'
I've gotten a solution from the following link:
https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng/issues/4
The solution is:
clone https://github.com/GNOME/gobject-introspection and look for the m4/ directory, where the instrospection.m4 file is. Copy that file to vte-ng/m4 directory and tun the autogen.sh again.
huskier
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Hello @huskier,
Thanks for the report. I tried here with git master libvips:
tar xf ../vips-8.10.0.tar.gz
cd vips-8.10.0/
CFLAGS="-g -Wall" CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure --prefix=/home/john/vips
make
make install
And it seems to work fine. How did you trigger this error? Did you perhaps run autogen.sh rather than configure?
jcupitt
on 30 Jul 2020
@jcupitt Yes, the bug is triggered when I run autogen.sh rather than configure.
Actually, there is no "condigure" file in the gitcloned package, and only autogen.sh is available.
huskier
on 31 Jul 2020
Yes, you need to have gobject-introspection installed to be able to run autogen.sh. The official tarball releases include a pre-built configure.
jcupitt
on 31 Jul 2020
Thanks for your explanation.
huskier
on 2 Aug 2020
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Yes, you need to have gobject-introspection installed to be able to run
autogen.sh. The official tarball releases include a pre-builtconfigure.