GNU bug report logs - #49122
gobject-introspection and not finding cairo

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From: John Kehayias <john.kehayias <at> protonmail.com>
To: "49122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <49122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: (No Subject)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 23:59:38 +0000

I've managed to fix the initial problem I noted, but this would depend on having cairo as an input so that gobject-introspection can find the library to patch the typelib. Unfortunately, this would be a circular dependency. This is a long standing issue with how cairo is handled here (see, e.g., https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/141).

I don't know how circular dependencies are solved in guix, so I'm not sure what to do to fix this. gobject-introspection doesn't need cairo to build or function, so the build depends is not really needed other than to fix this bug. So this could be done with a separate package or in two steps?

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