Bug#756273: glib2.0: FTBFS from svn: gapplication.c:564:test_quit: assertion failed: (activated)

[Simon McVittie]

Source: glib2.0
Version: 2.40.0-4
Severity: serious

Building GLib from svn to test my (unrelated) patches for the pcre3-related
FTBFS, I got:

ERROR: gapplication
===================

Failed to register: The connection is closed
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:/«PKGBUILDDIR»/./gio/tests/gapplication.c:564:test_quit: assertion failed: (activated)
Aborted (core dumped)
# random seed: R02Sa4bcbf9e22318b33449263781b09a803
# Start of gapplication tests
ok 1 /gapplication/no-dbus
PASS: gapplication 1 /gapplication/no-dbus
ok 2 /gapplication/no-appid
PASS: gapplication 2 /gapplication/no-appid
ok 3 /gapplication/properties
PASS: gapplication 3 /gapplication/properties
ok 4 /gapplication/app-id
PASS: gapplication 4 /gapplication/app-id
# GLib-GIO:ERROR:/«PKGBUILDDIR»/./gio/tests/gapplication.c:564:test_quit: assertion failed: (activated)
cleaning up pid 773
ERROR: gapplication - missing test plan
ERROR: gapplication - exited with status 134 (terminated by signal 6?)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash