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If one wants to run tests the non-installed gnome-shell, that currently fails as gnome-shell the executable attempts to link against ./build/src/libgnome-shell.so, but when GObject introspection tries to find what library to link to for Shell, it goes to the installed libgnome-shell.so, causing two different versions of libgnome-shell.so to be loaded. This, however, can be avoided thanks to meson adding $ORIGIN paths to relevant libraries before installing an executable. What this means in practice is that we can inspect ourself upon startup, discover whether the RPATH/RUNPATH header contains $ORIGIN, and if so, expand it to the directory containing the executable, and prepend the introspection search paths with said directory. This effectively means that the introspection machinery now finds the same library that the linker linked the gnome-shell executable with, making it run successfully. It's not possible to use $GI_TYPELIB_PATH since g_irepository_prepend_library_path() takes precedence. There is no "append" variant of that API. Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1349> |
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GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy to use experience.
For more information about GNOME Shell, including instructions on how to build GNOME Shell from source and how to get involved with the project, see the project wiki.
Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system. Please refer to the Schedule wiki page to see the supported versions.
Contributing
To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell.
Commit messages should follow the GNOME commit message guidelines. We require an URL to either an issue or a merge request in each commit.
Default branch
The default development branch is main. If you still have a local
checkout under the old name, use:
git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main
License
GNOME Shell is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.