On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 04:31:24PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Much of this directly to Ken, but anyone that can help would be great. > > I'm having issues with libsoup. I used the book's version, and it failed > 4 of 23 tests. And what really bothers me is that several packages have > had a test fail (gst-plugins-good, for example) that is because of an > issue with libsoup and remote http. > > Ken, you've probably answered this already, but I cannot find it. I know > you had issues and had to use a different version of soup. Why? > > Please give me any tips you have, and I apologize if this is redundant > information. > My issues might have been different (I mostly don't run tests in BLFS unless I'm editing the book). I need the introspection files from libsoup so that I can build epiphany. For some reason I had still been on libsoup-2.30.0, not 2.30.2, and was therefore using gir-repository. Upgrading gstreamer broke gir-repo, so I noted it in the gstreamer ticket.
Making that apparently trivial libsoup upgrade (2.30.0 to 2.30.2), it reported that I needed a newer version of introspection. At least, I think that's what it reported - looking back at my notes, they read as if I've deleted a paragraph somewhere :-( Perhaps I had tried the 2.32 version to see if it would give me the repo files. For me, introspection gets built days before I get to the real gnome parts, so I wasn't keen on upgrading it during the build. Using 2.31.6 (the last *available* version before newer introspection became required) I was able to build it and get the introspection files created. Whether libsoup has ever worked is a different question - I build it for epiphany, but storing passwords from epiphany has never worked reliably for me since the move to webkit. That's why I can remember my password for blfs trac :) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
