Bug 273402 – <unknown>:: Warning: WebKit2: (Signal)create-web-view: return value: Unresolved type: 'WebKitWebView'

• Status: NEW
• Component: WebKitGTK

Post the changes that landed in https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/da67032774ee7d7d35ad2746bb374d2f1ef2fc0d, I am getting the following build error while attempting to build webkitgtk 2.44.1 on Solaris with -DPORT=GTK and -DUSE_GTK4=OFF (previous versions also exhibit the same problem - the last successful build was 2.38.6 - which doesn't have the GTK3/4 split when GI is enabled)

<unknown>:: Warning: WebKit2: (Signal)create-web-view: return value: Unresolved type: 'WebKitWebView'
<unknown>:: Fatal: WebKit2: warnings configured as fatal
<unknown>:: Fatal: WebKit2: warnings configured as fatalmake[3]: *** [Source/WebKit/CMakeFiles/typelib-WebKit2.dir/build.make:244: WebKit2-4.0.gir] Error 1
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1644: Source/WebKit/CMakeFiles/typelib-WebKit2.dir/all] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 98%] Generating WebKit2WebExtension-4.0.typelib
[ 98%] Built target typelib-WebKit2WebExtension
[ 98%] Linking CXX shared module ../../lib/libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so
[ 98%] Built target webkit2gtkinjectedbundle
make[1]: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

[Patrick Griffis]

I guess the problematic one is:

   /**
     * WebKitAutomationSession::create-web-view:
     * @session: a #WebKitAutomationSession
     *
     * Returns: (transfer none): a #WebKitWebView widget.
     */

I guess it's unique but doesn't seem wrong.


What is your version of `gobject-introspection`?

I am using gobject-introspection version 1.76.1

[Michael Catanzaro]

Well it's real good that we made these warnings fatal, because broken signal return type is pretty bad. But I do not know why it doesn't work.