<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 10, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Burton, Ross <<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com" class="">ross.burton@intel.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 November 2015 at 23:10, Phil Blundell <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:pb@pbcl.net" target="_blank" class="">pb@pbcl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":5kh" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Why does gobject-introspection (presumably giscanner, right?) need to<br class="">
run binaries on the target at all? I thought it operated mostly on the<br class="">
source code.</div></blockquote></div><br class="">Same reason gtk-doc's scanner executes code: vast amounts of relevant information can't reliably be extracted from source but is trivial to introspect at runtime (GObject hierarchy, properties, signals, etc).</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>so its not truly cross build friendly, We should try to see if this can be fed in artificial information which can be stored in some config files, similar to autoconf caching IMO.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>
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