gobject-introspection can't compile with endian.h

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:43:03PM +0100, Koop Mast wrote:
> > On Dec 27, 2010 3:42 PM, "Steve Kargl" <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 03:22:55PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Steve Kargl <
> > >> sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Yep. A web search suggests that anything vaguely X11 related
> > >> > will eventually pull in a GNOME related component, which pulls
> > >> > in gobject-introspection. The search also suggests that this
> > >> > problem has been known for more than year except apparently
> > >> > no gnome developer sees the problem or knows how to fix it.
> > >>
> > >> I had a simmilar issue crop up and it turned out all I needed to do was
> > >> update devel/pth first, problem went away after that... the irony here is
> > >> that I was getting the exact same error w/ gobject-introspection and
> > py-dbus
> > >> (and a few more python modules). I got the errors while trying to do two
> > >> different things, 1) upgrading python to 2.6 and s) installing an audio
> > tag
> > >> editor app for X. But like I said, once I installed devel/pth it all
> > fixed
> > >> itself.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggested workaround. My current attempt
> > > of defining WITHOUT_GNOME just died in g-i for the 5th
> > > time. If g-i requires pth, then it should be listed in
> > > its Makefile as a prerequisite. OTOH, if g-i does need
> > > pth, then your suggested "fix" is papering over a bug
> > > within the gnome framework.
> > >
> 
> This looks like this is a bug in the rtld that was fixed earlier today
> in rev 216728. Could you update your current and then try to build the
> ports again?
> 

Thanks!  That seems to fix the build issue, although 
I still get an error about parsing endian.h.

-- 
Steve