Installing gtk4 for testing on /opt II

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Again I missed the 14 day response time by a few hours :frowning:

jtojnarJan Tojnar

I just tried what you suggested as

meson --prefix /opt/gtk builddir
ninja -C builddir
ninja -C builddir install

So I did

rm -rf /opt/gtk
rm -rf gtk
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk.git
cd gtk
meson --prefix /opt/gtk builddir

But that results in

meson.build:358:2: ERROR: Inconsistency: Subproject has overriden the dependency with another variable than 'libpangoft2_dep'

So that recipe is too simple. I have no idea what the concrete problem is, but I think I have to fall back to my initial solution, hope that that one will still work.

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And I now get the same error with my initial install script!

Maybe my meson is broken?

$ meson -v
0.54.1

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Or maybe GTK4 now requires pango 1.45, what is not available?

Dependency pango from subproject subprojects/pango found: YES 1.45.0
Dependency fribidi found: YES 1.0.9 (cached)
Pkg-config binary for MachineChoice.HOST is cached.
Determining dependency 'pangoft2' with pkg-config executable '/usr/bin/pkg-config'
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /opt/gtk/lib64/pkgconfig
Called `/usr/bin/pkg-config --modversion pangoft2` -> 0
1.42.4
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /opt/gtk/lib64/pkgconfig
Called `/usr/bin/pkg-config --cflags pangoft2` -> 0
-I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/lib64/libffi/include -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /opt/gtk/lib64/pkgconfig
Called `/usr/bin/pkg-config pangoft2 --libs` -> 0
-L/usr/lib64 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /opt/gtk/lib64/pkgconfig
Called `/usr/bin/pkg-config pangoft2 --libs` -> 0
-lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/opt/gtk/lib64/pkgconfig'
Run-time dependency pangoft2 found: YES 1.42.4
Dependency pangoft2 found: YES 1.42.4 (cached)

meson.build:358:2: ERROR: Inconsistency: Subproject has overriden the dependency with another variable than 'libpangoft2_dep'
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I feel you, I am subscribed to hundreds of open source projects so it may sometimes take more that two weeks to follow up. Discourse already has “this topic is old” warning to discourage necro-bumps so I feel force closing is more annoying than necessary.

Regardng the error, Meson 0.54 started caching dependencies so it would notice inconsistencies like this. Perhaps GTK/Pango still did not catch up? Try downgrading Meson to 0.53.2.

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Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I will try downgrading Meson, I think my gentoo box upgraded it recently.

If that will not help then I will use gtk 3.98.3 git tag, as that worked some weeks ago. From the gtk readme I got the impression that current gtk is already 3.98.4.

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Indeed, it is an issue with meson 0.54.1. Downgrading to 0.53.1 has fixed the issue.

And your simple instructions for GTK4 install works indeed, I did

cd
rm -rf /opt/gtk
rm -rf gtk
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk.git
cd gtk
meson --prefix /opt/gtk builddir
ninja -C builddir
ninja -C builddir install

and I can launch gtk4-demo with

GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=/opt/gtk/share/glib-2.0/schemas /opt/gtk/bin/gtk4-demo

During install there where a few error messages, but I ignored them and can not remember the content now.

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Please open an issue on GTK issue tracker so the developers can fix it:

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