On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What is being run at build time needing which rpath in order to function? The GObject type system as currently designed defines some components (like properties and signals) in C code, and this has necessitated running a binary to extract that data. I would *love* to be in a future where we can rely on the static introspection scanning and don't need to be running a binary, but we're not there yet. > And is gtk-doc running something specially because this is glib2 or is it > running things every single build? (Back in the day, it just extracted > things from source code comments, so I'm not sure what this new behaviour is > doing). Nope, it's always created a binary. [walters@pocket gobject-introspection (transformer)]$ grep Copyright /usr/bin/gtkdoc-scangobj # Copyright (C) 1998 Damon Chaplin [walters@pocket gobject-introspection (transformer)] -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel