Re: What is this "gi" Python module that x11-toolkits/gtk40 wants?

From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin_at_gwdg.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 17:15:03 UTC
Am 11.09.22 um 18:46 schrieb Dima Panov:
> On 11.09.2022 19:18, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Am 11.09.22 um 17:44 schrieb David Wolfskill:
>>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 06:28:35PM +0300, Dima Panov wrote:
>>>> ....
>>>> Just curious -- did you rebuild/reinstall *ALL* 'py3*-*' modules after
>>>> bump default python from 3.8 to 3.9?
>>>> ....
>>>
>>> Not sure -- that was a while back, and I only keep build typescripts for
>>> a limited time.
>>>
>>> In any case, given the above hint, I just ran "portmaster py3\*" (which
>>> is, admittedly, rather brute-force).
>>>
>>> A subsequent "portmaster -da" (to pick up x11-toolkits/gtk40) still
>>> fails in precisely the same way, though.
>>>
>>> Thanks for taking the time to help -- this feels as if I'm doing
>>> something (after a couple of decades of reasonable success at keeping
>>> things up-to-date) rather fundamentally wrong.
>>
>> Just a wild guess. Is textproc/gtk-doc installed?
> 
> gtk-doc package is legacy/outdated mechanism to gen html docs
> 
> 
>> It seems required indirectly by meson in x11-toolkits/gtk40:
>>
>> docs/reference/meson.build:l4
>> gidocgen = find_program('gi-docgen', required: get_option('gtk_doc'))
>>
> 
> gtk_doc knob for meson config is not equals to gtk-doc package 
> requirements but for gi-docgen from textproc/py-gi-docgen.
> 
> Knob name was keep'd for compatibility with legacy build systems

Ok, I see. Thanks for clarification!