Subject: bug#63274: dia: Fails to build (Meson: Function does not take positional arguments)

From: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 18:06:14 +0200

Ivan Vilata i Balaguer (2023-05-04 17:26:48 +0200) wrote:

> Hi!  It looks like the Meson build of `dia` fails to complete in the version
> of Guix shown below:
> 
> ```
> […]
>     commit: 3f8c4899a9a67bb509a603bd21dcfcfab88c0e8e
> ```
> 
> This is the final part of the build log:
> 
> ```
> starting phase `configure'
> The Meson build system
> […]
> ../source/sheets/meson.build:47:32: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.
> […]
> ```

The latest commit in Dia's Git repo (just 3 after the one use by Guix) states
"build: Fix deprecated positional argument for i18n.merge_file":
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/commit/6ef461d8a04ffcd23df26fc4749cebc6322a5322>

Building `--with-commit=dia=6ef461d8a04ffcd23df26fc4749cebc6322a5322` is successful.

I'll send a patch to fix this.

Cheers!

-- 
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- https://elvil.net/