gobject-introspection is required to run the unit tests but it seems like it should not be needed for a production build of the library, but Kou will know more.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 4:54 AM Chengxin Ma <c...@protonmail.ch.invalid> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am building Arrow GLib on a system where I'm not the admin. > In the installation instructions > (https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/c_glib) there are two options > for building GLib: "How to build by users" and "How to build by developers". > I followed the "by users" section and met the following problem: > "checking for gobject-introspection... configure: error: > gobject-introspection-1.0 is not installed". > > "GObject Introspection" is mentioned explicitly in the "How to build by > developers" section. Does this indicate it is optional if we build as a user? > I checked "./configure --help" but didn't find a way to exclude it in the > build process. > I've also tried to build GObject Introspection > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/gobject-introspection.html) > but Meson isn't available on the system... > > Could someone please offer a suggestion for me to build Arrow GLib? > > Kind Regards > Chengxin > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
