d-feet: Fails to build (Function does not take positional arguments)

Hi! It looks like the Meson build of `d-feet` fails to complete in the

version of Guix shown below:

```

$ guix describe

Generation 56 May 02 2023 11:25:26 (current)

guix 3f8c489

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

branch: master

commit: 3f8c4899a9a67bb509a603bd21dcfcfab88c0e8e

```

This is the final part of the build log:

```

starting phase `configure'

The Meson build system

Version: 1.1.0

Source dir: /tmp/guix-build-d-feet-0.3.16.drv-0/d-feet-0.3.16

Build dir: /tmp/guix-build-d-feet-0.3.16.drv-0/build

Build type: native build

Project name: d-feet

Project version: 0.3.16

Host machine cpu family: x86_64

Host machine cpu: x86_64

Program python3 found: YES (/gnu/store/dy3xh053ahkhrp2jamggq8cpsyvp8mg0-python-3.10.7/bin/python3)

Found pkg-config: /gnu/store/jz5dwdxq4di29cd0rjjzkw356dhkzjil-pkg-config-0.29.2/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)

Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: YES 3.24.37

Run-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: YES 1.72.0

Run-time dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.72.3

Program msgfmt found: YES (/gnu/store/5d0fgnmh63yx98s1kfp57rc2x05xqk1d-gettext-minimal-0.21/bin/msgfmt)

Program msginit found: YES (/gnu/store/5d0fgnmh63yx98s1kfp57rc2x05xqk1d-gettext-minimal-0.21/bin/msginit)

Program msgmerge found: YES (/gnu/store/5d0fgnmh63yx98s1kfp57rc2x05xqk1d-gettext-minimal-0.21/bin/msgmerge)

Program xgettext found: YES (/gnu/store/5d0fgnmh63yx98s1kfp57rc2x05xqk1d-gettext-minimal-0.21/bin/xgettext)

Configuring d-feet using configuration

Configuring tests.py using configuration

Program pep8 found: YES (/gnu/store/09j78kk5zw662qw8y949ndswqp23193b-python-pep8-1.7.0/bin/pep8)

Configuring org.gnome.dfeet.desktop.in using configuration

../d-feet-0.3.16/data/meson.build:15:5: ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments.

A full log can be found at /tmp/guix-build-d-feet-0.3.16.drv-0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt

error: in phase 'configure': uncaught exception:

%exception #<&invoke-error program: "meson" arguments: ("setup" "--prefix=/gnu/store/y414lsncri13kn6wz1hzhgzy6lpbivlf-d-feet-0.3.16" "--buildtype=debugoptimized" "-Dc_link_args=-Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/y414lsncri13kn6wz1hzhgzy6lpbivlf-d-feet-0.3.16/lib" "-Dcpp_link_args=-Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/y414lsncri13kn6wz1hzhgzy6lpbivlf-d-feet-0.3.16/lib" "/tmp/guix-build-d-feet-0.3.16.drv-0/d-feet-0.3.16") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f>

phase `configure' failed after 0.7 seconds

command "meson" "setup" "--prefix=/gnu/store/y414lsncri13kn6wz1hzhgzy6lpbivlf-d-feet-0.3.16" "--buildtype=debugoptimized" "-Dc_link_args=-Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/y414lsncri13kn6wz1hzhgzy6lpbivlf-d-feet-0.3.16/lib" "-Dcpp_link_args=-Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/y414lsncri13kn6wz1hzhgzy6lpbivlf-d-feet-0.3.16/lib" "/tmp/guix-build-d-feet-0.3.16.drv-0/d-feet-0.3.16" failed with status 1

```

Unfortunately I know nothing about Meson, so I can't suggest a way to go…

Thanks and have a nice day!

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Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- https://elvil.net/

Am Donnerstag, dem 04.05.2023 um 17:13 +0200 schrieb Ivan Vilata i

Balaguer:

Looking at d-feet itself, it appears as though it has been all but

deprecated in the favour of d-spy. Perhaps guix should simply declare

it a deprecated package instead of attempting to patch it – a patch has

already been filed upstream previously, but is not yet merged any

branch as far as I'm aware.

Cheers

Liliana Marie Prikler (2023-05-04 19:48:34 +0200) wrote:

Thanks for the info! For reference, this looks like the mentioned patch:

Cheers!

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Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- https://elvil.net/

I fix this in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63270and it's pending to be

merged.

You can also try d-spy which IMO it's very good alternate.

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