This Is Apfelhammer!

Hello and good morning, I'm back at my Powermac G5, playing around a bit with T2/Linux (all articles).

I recently reported that a current version of Firefox is capable of running on PPC64, making this distro the only one that allows this. Everyone else is having major problems with Firefox right now. Although I assume René, the maintainer of T2, is sending his patches upstream. He does a lot for the community.

Anyway, I'd like to install mousepad, an editor for Xfce4. Unfortunately, I can't compile it. I'm getting an error with the gtksourceview4 package, which is required to build mousepad. And I can't fix it.

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[83/251] Compiling C object tests/test-completion.p/test-completion.c.o
[84/251] Generating symbol file gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.so.0.0.0.p/libgtksourceview-4.so.0.0.0.symbols
[85/251] Generating gtksourceview/GtkSource-4.gir with a custom command (wrapped by meson to set env)
FAILED: [code=1] gtksourceview/GtkSource-4.gir
env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/meson-uninstalled:/lib64/pkgconfig:/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/share/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R7/share/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R7/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R7/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/share/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib64/pkgconfig:/opt/xfce4/lib64/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/pkg-config CC=gcc CFLAGS= /opt/gnome/bin/g-ir-scanner --quiet --no-libtool --namespace=GtkSource --nsversion=4 --warn-all --output gtksourceview/GtkSource-4.gir --c-include=gtksourceview/gtksource.h --warn-all -I/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/gtksourceview -I/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/gtksourceview -I/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/. -I/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/. --filelist=/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.so.0.0.0.p/GtkSource_4_gir_filelist -L/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/gtksourceview -L/opt/gnome/lib64 --extra-library=gtksourceview-4 --include=Gdk-3.0 --include=Gtk-3.0 --symbol-prefix=gtk_source --identifier-prefix=GtkSource --pkg-export=gtksourceview-4 --cflags-begin -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=GDK_VERSION_3_24 -DGDK_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=GDK_VERSION_3_24 -DGLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=GLIB_VERSION_2_48 -DGLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=GLIB_VERSION_2_48 -I/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/. -I/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/. -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/opt/gnome/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/gnome/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/opt/gnome/include -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/X11R7/include -I/usr/X11R7/include/pixman-1 -I/opt/gnome/include/gtk-3.0 -I/opt/gnome/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/opt/gnome/include/at-spi-2.0 -I/opt/gnome/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/opt/gnome/include/pango-1.0 -I/opt/gnome/include/atk-1.0 -I/opt/gnome/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/opt/gnome/include/gobject-introspection-1.0 --cflags-end --add-include-path=/opt/gnome/share/gir-1.0 -L/usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/gtksourceview --library gtksourceview-4 -L/opt/gnome/lib64 --extra-library=m --extra-library=fribidi -L/opt/gnome/lib64 --extra-library=glib-2.0 --extra-library=gobject-2.0 --extra-library=gio-2.0 --extra-library=gtk-3 --extra-library=gdk-3 --extra-library=pangocairo-1.0 --extra-library=pango-1.0 --extra-library=harfbuzz --extra-library=atk-1.0 --extra-library=cairo-gobject --extra-library=cairo --extra-library=gdk_pixbuf-2.0 --extra-library=xml2 --extra-library=girepository-1.0 --sources-top-dirs /usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/ --sources-top-dirs /usr/src/t2-src/src.gtksourceview4.251018.101622.11937/gtksourceview-4.8.4/objs/
Couldn't find include 'Gdk-3.0.gir' (search path: '['/opt/gnome/share/gir-1.0', '/root/.local/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/gnome/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/java/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/libreoffice/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/mozilla/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/openldap/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/rust/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/wasi/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/xfce4/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/gnome/share/gir-1.0', '/opt/gnome/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0']')

[86/251] Compiling C object tests/test-int2str.p/test-int2str.c.o
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Due to previous errors, no 9-gtksourceview4.log file!
(Try enabling xtrace in the config to track an error inside the build system.)
--- BUILD ERROR ---
Creating file list and doing final adaptions ...
Searching for orphaned files ...
Found 6 files for this package.
Found 1 orphaned files for this package.
Calculating package dependencies ...
Deleting dependencies, pattern:  -e ".*: t2-src$" -e ".*: glibc$" -e ".*: gcc$" ...
Adding dependencies, glib
Marking optional dependencies, glib
Creating md5sum files ...
Creating package description ...
Making post-install adaptions.

If I look at it more closely, it means something like that the error encounters during the GtkSourceView4 build on T2 Linux is due to a missing GObject Introspection (.gir) file, which is a common issue when build dependencies aren't fully met.

Rene is writing on his website, that if you plan to compile or cross compile, you need to reinstall some packages and I reinstalled t2 install -f gobject-introspection and it worked. So I have no glued what to do here. I always stuck with those failures I can't handle by myself and the Powermac G5 is a slow machine, I do it on bare metal becouse crosscompiling for ppc64 on my mac mini m4 is even more pointless.

There are other packages wich also not build, e.g. appstream-glib:

[64/114] Compiling C object client/appstream-compose.p/as-compose.c.o
[65/114] Linking target libappstream-glib/as-self-test
[66/114] Generating libappstream-glib/AppStreamGlib-1.0.typelib with a custom command
[67/114] Generating data/appstream-util-man with a custom command
FAILED: [code=4] data/appstream-util.1
/usr/bin/xsltproc --nonet --stringparam man.output.quietly 1 --stringparam 
funcsynopsis.style ansi --stringparam man.th.extra1.suppress 1 --stringparam 
man.authors.section.enabled 0 --stringparam man.copyright.section.enabled 0 
-o data/appstream-util.1 http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl
/current/manpages/docbook.xsl ../data/appstream-util.xml
I/O error : failed to load "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/
xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl": Attempt to load network entity
warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net
/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
[68/114] Compiling C object client/appstream-util.p/as-util.c.o
In file included from ../client/as-util.c:21:
In function 'as_util_mirror_screenshots_app_url',
    inlined from 'as_util_mirror_screenshots_app' at ../client/as-util.c:3520:8,
    inlined from 'as_util_mirror_screenshots' at ../client/as-util.c:3636:8:
../client/as-util.c:3450:23: warning: call to '_curl_easy_setopt_err_long' declared with attribute warning: curl_easy_setopt expects a long argument [-Wattribute-warning]
3450 |                 (void)curl_easy_setopt(priv->curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Due to previous errors, no 9-appstream-glib.log file!
(Try enabling xtrace in the config to track an error inside the build system.)
--- BUILD ERROR ---
Creating file list and doing final adaptions ...
Searching for orphaned files ...
Found 6 files for this package.
Found 1 orphaned files for this package.
Calculating package dependencies ...
Deleting dependencies, pattern:  -e ".*: t2-src$" -e ".*: glibc$" -e ".*: gcc$" ...

Tags: t2linux, compiling, crosscompiling