Can I have Cinnamon without gobject-introspection

[roelof]

Hello,

Like I said before I busy with porting Cinnamon.
But I ran into a problem.

Gobject-introspection writes the .gir files into /usr/share/gir-1.0 dir
But on Crux linux I'm not allowed to use the /usr/share dir.

So now I wonder if I can build Cinnamon without gobject-introspection package.
Or is there another way to solve this ?

Regards,

Roelof

[glebihan]

No, Cinnamon requires gobject-introspection, there's no way around that.
As for solutions, I know nothing about Crux, but that would be the first time I hear/read of a linux distro that doesn't use /usr/share...

[AlbertP]

gobject-introspection is mainly used to provide an interface between the UI written in JavaScript and the base code and window manager written in C.

I think you can create the /usr/share folder yourself, even if the Crux developers consider it bad practice:

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# mkdir /usr/share

If necessary you can use chmod to set the right permissions for writing in the folder.