Improve installation experience when a globally-installed libvips below the minimum required version is found

[binarykitchen]

make: Entering directory '/var/www/videomail/staging/source/node_modules/sharp/build'                              
  TOUCH Release/obj.target/libvips-cpp.stamp             
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o      
In file included from ../src/common.cc:25:0:             
/usr/local/include/vips/vips8:35:10: fatal error: glib-object.h: No such file or directory                         
 #include <glib-object.h>                                
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                
compilation terminated.                                  
sharp.target.mk:120: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o' failed                              
make: Leaving directory '/var/www/videomail/staging/source/node_modules/sharp/build'                               
make: *** [Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o] Error 1 

[lovell]

Hello, the presence of /usr/local/include/vips suggests libvips has been compiled from source on this machine.

http://jcupitt.github.io/libvips/install.html#building-libvips-from-a-source-tarball

The glib2.0-dev dependency is probably missing.

You might also like to upgrade to sharp v0.20.0, which should remove the need for compilation.

[binarykitchen]

already have bumped to .20 and this is where the above is happening

you saying i should apt-get install glib2.0-dev?

[lovell]

Sharp will be built from source at install time when a globally-installed libvips is detected http://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/en/stable/install/

You can either:

1. maintain the globally-installed libvips and its dependencies (including glib2.0-dev) and let sharp compile and link itself against that version of libvips, or
2. remove the globally-installed libvips and let sharp use prebuilt binaries for both itself and libvips.

[binarykitchen]

i already had glib2.0-dev installed

michael.heuberger@binarykitchen /v/log ❯❯❯ sudo apt-get install glib2.0-dev
[sudo] password for michael.heuberger:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libglib2.0-dev-bin' for regex 'glib2.0-dev'
Note, selecting 'libglib2.0-dev' for regex 'glib2.0-dev'
libglib2.0-dev is already the newest version (2.54.1-1ubuntu1).
libglib2.0-dev-bin is already the newest version (2.54.1-1ubuntu1).
libglib2.0-dev-bin set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

yet sharp failed to build

[lovell]

Does glib-object.h exist?

$ locate glib-object.h | grep usr
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h

Is pkg-config aware of the path it exists at?

$ pkg-config --cflags vips-cpp
-pthread -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 ...

[binarykitchen]

dont have the locate command here on ubuntu 17.10

[lovell]

The find command is also suitable here, albeit a lot slower due to the lack of an index.

$ find /usr -name glib-object.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h

[binarykitchen]

thanks... so yes it exists

~ ❯❯❯ find /usr -name glib-object.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h

and no, pkg-config isn't aware of it

~ ❯❯❯ pkg-config --cflags vips-cpp
Package vips-cpp was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vips-cpp.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'vips-cpp' found

[lovell]

Please can you try that second command with the same PKG_CONFIG_PATH as sharp uses, to include /usr/local/...:

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config --cflags vips-cpp

My best guess is that there's one or more (partial?) installations of libvips that are conflicting.

[binarykitchen]

nope that wont work either

~ ❯❯❯ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config --cflags vips-cpp
Package vips-cpp was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vips-cpp.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'vips-cpp' found

and yes, on the server i have two nodejs projects running both using your package (local installs)

[lovell]

I'd suggest ether re-installing libvips or totally removing it. Without looking at the machine I'm unlikely to be able to help further. Good luck!

[flyersa]

same error on ubuntu 16.04 with libvips-dev and glib dev installed, also file exists in fs

[lovell]

If using a globally-installed libvips (e.g. via the libvips-dev package), please ensure it meets the minimum required version of libvips for a given version of sharp.

http://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/en/stable/changelog/

For example, sharp v0.20.x requires libvips v8.6.1+ but the most recent Ubuntu package is v8.4.5.

[asilvas]

fyi I see this issue on mac osx as well. brew update vips resolved.

[lovell]

Thanks for the additional reports. This appears to only impact those using v0.20.0 with an globally-installed libvips that does not meet the minimum required version. I have an idea about how to improve the installation experience in this scenario.

[lovell]

Commit 48c5f86 should make the installation experience a little smoother - this will be in v0.20.1.

[Nokel81]

What is the timeframe for v0.20.1? Thank you in advance

[lovell]

v0.20.1 now available, thank you for the feedback.