[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#654849: Bug#654849: gtk-vnc: FTBFS with GModule-2.0.gir:46.7-46.66: error: unknown child element `function' in `record'

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:57:06AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 06:07 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> > I can't seem to reproduct this in a clean amd64 sid chroot. Are you
> > still seeing this?
> 
> Hm, this is still reproducible for me in an up-to-date sid i386 system
> that i've been keeping updated for several months now.
> 
> But i made a fresh chroot on the same machine, and did nothing in it but:
> 
>  apt-get install build-essential fakeroot
>  apt-get build-dep gtk-vnc
> 
> and then tried to rebuild gtk-vnc 0.5.0-2, and it built cleanly.
> 
> So something is amiss in the regularly-upgraded build environment, but
> i'm not sure what it is, or how or why it breaks the build for gtk-vnc.
I'd assume that this is somehow related to the installed vala packages.
We have valac 0.14 and 0.12 in the archives. Could you check if the non
chroot build picks up something different in that area? Sorry for being
vague here, but I've got no clear idea either.
Cheers and thanks for reporting back,
 -- Guido