xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.13.1 fails to emerge

[xsilentmurmurx]

hello everyone

I am trying to emerge KDE Plasma 5 and everything is emerging fine, but when I get to xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.13.1,  the emerging fails.  I tried to emerge it separately and it still fails.  

 

here is the build.log for xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.13.1:

https://paste.pound-python.org/show/ozz1CuzVsUsOwFi25PKE/
 

Please let me know if there is anything info I need to provide

 

Thanks!

 

[Oleg Vinichenko]

su - or su -l is recommended as in this case you're getting clean environment not contaminated with any variables such as XDG_CACHE_HOME and which was the origin of a failure.

[palica]

try

 

su -

 

should set also environment variables

[xsilentmurmurx]

38 minutes ago, jhan said:

It seems your emerge fails while trying to create the directory /home/majid/.cache/g-ir-scanner. Not sure why. I just installed it on my system without problem. The only thing that seems to be different is the USE flag introspection. It seems to me that you installed it with "+introspection" while my installation was with ""-introspection".

If you don't really need the "support for GObject based introspection" for this package I would suggest trying to install it with "-introspection" and see how it goes.

Thank you for the reply

 

Emerging it with USE="-introspection" worked, but the problem is when I run this command to update the system and emerge KDE Plasma 5:

 

emerge -auvDN --with-bdeps=y @world kde-plasma/plasma-meta

 

it forces libxfce4util to emerge with USE="+introspection" . Any idea on how I can fix this?

 

Thanks!

[Oleg Vinichenko]

this failure could happen if your XDG environment incorrectly set. Thats when you start compilation in GUI (terminal emulator), some XDG* variables have special values. TO check, run following in terminal you used:

declare -p ${!XDG*}

[xsilentmurmurx]

2 hours ago, Oleg Vinichenko said:

this failure could happen if your XDG environment incorrectly set. Thats when you start compilation in GUI (terminal emulator), some XDG* variables have special values. TO check, run following in terminal you used:

declare -p ${!XDG*}

thank you for the response Oleg

 

Here you go:

 

# declare -p ${!XDG*}
declare -x XDG_CACHE_HOME="/home/majid/.cache"
declare -x XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg"
declare -x XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/home/majid/.config"
declare -x XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="LXQt"
declare -x XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share"
declare -x XDG_DATA_HOME="/home/majid/.local/share"
declare -x XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR="/var/lib/lightdm-data/majid"
declare -x XDG_MENU_PREFIX="lxqt-"
declare -x XDG_SEAT="seat0"
declare -x XDG_SEAT_PATH="/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_COOKIE="funtoohost-1515048768.293209-672040983"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP="lxqt"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_PATH="/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_TYPE="x11"
declare -x XDG_VTNR="7"

 

[Oleg Vinichenko]

so, that's the problem.  normally

XDG_CACHE_HOME=/root 

expected. How do you use your terminal root? Via su, sudo, etc?

[xsilentmurmurx]

8 hours ago, Oleg Vinichenko said:

so, that's the problem.  normally

XDG_CACHE_HOME=/root 

expected. How do you use your terminal root? Via su, sudo, etc?

Ahh I see.. I usually su into the root account 

[xsilentmurmurx]

8 minutes ago, palica said:

try

 

su -

 

should set also environment variables

You never fail me Palica :)  That worked!! Thank you! I am now emerging KDE Plasma 5. .Hopefully I wont run into any more issues.   Do you recommend that when I emerge packages, I use su - first to switch into the root user and load all of the root user's environment variables?