Issues building macOS binaries

[wintermute001]

On an M2 Macbook pro with Sonoma (macOS 14.0), "jhbuild update" fails multiple times

examples:

1. *** Error during phase force_checkout of zlib: file hash is incorrect (expected d14c38e313afc35a9a8760dadf26042f51ea0f5d154b0630a31da0540107fb98, got d5a89e26beae0bc03ad18a0b0d1d3d75f87c32047879d25da11970cb5c4662a3) *** [4/137]

2. *** Error during phase build of pygments: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/fablap01/gtk/inst/bin/python3' *** [9/137]

3. clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) make[2]: *** [libffi.la] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error during phase build of libffi: ########## Error running make -j 11 *** [12/137]

What is the recommendation? Ignoring all the errors and continuing the installation?

[totaam]

• zlib
  I don't think you can continue without zlib.
  Figure out if the checksum is wrong, and if so, change it - then ideally submit a PR.

• pygments I don't remember what I did with this one, IIRC it's only used for building other stuff so you could just pip install it from a jhbuild shell and ignore the module?

• libffi - no details included so no idea, sorry

Edit: originated from #4017

[wintermute001]

Thanks. Will check zlib in more details; some of the issues is that the tool seems to be looking for python3 in the wrong location (I have it on a homebrew local folder....): do you know where I can tweak the jhbuild search path?
Thanks again

[totaam]

Sorry, no idea.

[totaam]

For libffi, please see:
Xpra-org/gtk-osx-build#22
Xpra-org/gtk-osx-build#27

[totaam]

There have been many fixes to the modulesets so the issues above are likely outdated - except for libffi.

Please open a new ticket if you are still having issues.