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Am Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:53:12 -0700 |
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schrieb walt <w41ter@×××××.com>: |
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> I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but |
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> apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did. |
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> The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection |
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> was subtle enough that I didn't realize until yesterday that I even had |
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> a problem. |
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> Portage had been doing mildly insane things that other people were not |
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> seeing, so as a test I removed the -introspection useflag and spent the |
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> entire day rebuilding packages. My portage problem appears to be |
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> fixed. I hope. |
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> If anyone can splain what introspection does I'd be grateful. |
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This should help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_introspection. In this |
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case I believe it's related to the gobject type system that comes from glib. |
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HTH |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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