Re: devel/gobject-introspection failure on ARM

On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 10:57 -0500, George Mitchell wrote:
> System: Raspberry Pi
> uname: r245840M (Alie Tan's image from 25 January)
> ports: svnversion 308518
> 
> Build dies with message "sizeof(ArrayTypeBlob) is expected to be 8 but
> is 12."  (Complete build log attached.)  I made a naive attempt to fix
> it by rearranging the order of the structure members, but obviously I
> don't understand structure packing on the ARM and it didn't help.  It
> also didn't get rid of the huge number of "cast increases required
> alignment of target type" warnings.
> 
> I note we're at version 0.10.8 of this package, but upstream is at
> 1.34.2.  (It requires glib 2.34.1, though, and we're only at 2.28.8).
> 
> What's the best way to proceed?                   -- George Mitchell

I'm currently in the process of making a patch [1] for the ports tree
for glib 2.34.3 and gobject-introspection 1.34.1.1. If you want to give
this a shot on ARM. Please note that the patch is WIP. Not all ports
have been tested yet.

-Koop

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/glib-2.34_1.diff