Unable to install due to pthread-stubs and gtk+-3.0 missing

[nouun]

When trying to install through brew install zathura --HEAD I get the following error:

==> Fetching dependencies for zegervdv/zathura/zathura: girara
==> Fetching zegervdv/zathura/girara
==> Downloading https://github.com/pwmt/girara/archive/0.3.7.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/nouun/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/b41665f8aac659b07a8a0e1c7e0d72910eb06de9041ec9ec913349e74f7bc87f--girara-0.3.7.tar.gz
==> Fetching zegervdv/zathura/zathura
==> Downloading https://github.com/pwmt/zathura/archive/0.4.9.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/nouun/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/5e57874b5510a7b358d5e6978ec03b54711515bfd3ac67946efce81f85979a66--zathura-0.4.9.tar.gz
==> Installing zathura from zegervdv/zathura
==> Installing dependencies for zegervdv/zathura/zathura: girara
==> Installing zegervdv/zathura/zathura dependency: girara
==> meson --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/girara/0.3.7 --libdir=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/girara/0.3.7/lib --buildtype=release --wrap-mode=nofallback ..
Last 15 lines from /Users/nouun/Library/Logs/Homebrew/girara/01.meson:
Library m found: YES
Found pkg-config: /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/mac/super/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.74.4
Found CMake: /opt/homebrew/opt/cmake/bin/cmake (3.25.1)
Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: NO (tried framework and cmake)

../meson.build:35:0: ERROR: Dependency lookup for gtk+-3.0 with method 'pkgconfig' failed: Could not generate cargs for gtk+-3.0:
Package pthread-stubs was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pthread-stubs.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'pthread-stubs', required by 'xcb', not found

A full log can be found at /private/tmp/girara-20230105-31416-1dpb0k6/girara-0.3.7/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
WARNING: Running the setup command as `meson [options]` instead of `meson setup [options]` is ambiguous and deprecated.

[mrrms]

Me too. Run-time dependency girara-gtk3 found: NO (tried pkgconfig, framework and cmake)

[EphraimSiegfried]

Same situation on my Mac. A week ago I was able to install it without any problems. I deleted it and tried to reinstall it with the command brew install zathura --with-synctex but it failed. I tried many other ways to install Zathura with homebrew, but I got the same problem. I followed this thread https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/35 but that didn`t help either.

[zegervdv]

Seems like the package was renamed: homebrew change.

Try brew edit girara and update gtk+ to gtk+3. If this fixes it I'll update the Formulae.

[jowodo]

I tried to edit the girara package, but it was already updated to gtk+3. when i did brew install zathura I get:

==> Installing zathura from zegervdv/zathura
==> Installing dependencies for zegervdv/zathura/zathura: girara
==> Installing zegervdv/zathura/zathura dependency: girara
==> meson --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/girara/0.3.7 --libdir=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/girara/0.3.7/liLast 15 lines from /Users/brew/Library/Logs/Homebrew/girara/01.meson:
Library m found: YES
Found pkg-config: /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/mac/super/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.74.4
Found CMake: /opt/homebrew/opt/cmake/bin/cmake (3.25.1)
Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: NO (tried framework and cmake)

../meson.build:35:0: ERROR: Dependency lookup for gtk+-©h3.0 with method 'pkgconfig' failed: Could not generate cargs for gtk+-3.0:
Package pthread-stubs was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pthread-stubs.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'pthread-stubs', required by 'xcb', not found

I tried to include PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the command but got the same error. I tried to edit xcb in the same way as advised above brew edit libxcb but in the code it says that on macos pthread-stubs is dropped but at the end of the editable file I see:

__END__
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 2503d4b..0c36685 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -20662,7 +20662,7 @@ printf "%s\n" "yes" >&6; }
 fi
 NEEDED="xau >= 0.99.2"
 case $host_os in
-linux*) ;;
+linux*|darwin*) ;;
      *) NEEDED="$NEEDED pthread-stubs" ;;
 esac

I don't really know what to do with this info but I hope it may be useful

[mrrms]

I also found that the girara package was already updated to gtk+3.

After trying brew install zathura --HEAD, the following emerged:

Not looking for a fallback subproject for the dependency girara-gtk3 because:
Use of fallback dependencies is disabled.

../meson.build:40:0: ERROR: Dependency 'girara-gtk3' is required but not found.

Not sure of this additional error message is useful... The following happens when attempting to open a pdf with zathura ---.pdf:

error: could not open plugin directory: /usr/local/lib/zathura
error: Found no plugins. Please install at least one plugin.
2023-01-10 15:24:00.160 zathura[19683:83933] apply_selection_policy_once: prefer use of removable GPUs (via (null):GPUSelectionPolicy->preferRemovable)
error: Could not determine file type.

[clanktron]

I'm also experiencing this issue. Currently on Monterey 12.6.2.

[eiiot]

Same issue here. Ventura 13.0.1

[DennisFeldbusch]

Same issue for Ventura 13.1

[zegervdv]

Okay, I was a bit too fast to jump to conclusions.

Can you try adding depends_on "libpthread-stubs" to the girara Formula?

[jowodo]

try adding depends_on "libpthread-stubs" to the girara Formula?

Wow this did the trick! Thanks for the fast feedback!

brew edit girara 
# add `depends_on "libpthread-stubs"` to dependencies
brew install zathura-pdf-mupdf
# follow instructions on the screen
mkdir -p $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura
ln -s $(brew --prefix zathura-pdf-mupdf)/libpdf-mupdf.dylib $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura/libpdf-mupdf.dylib

[DennisFeldbusch]

Okay, I was a bit too fast to jump to conclusions.

Can you try adding depends_on "libpthread-stubs" to the girara Formula?

It's working 🥳

[zegervdv]

Thanks for confirming. I'll push the fix tomorrow.

[McFrappe]

Adding the line depends_on "libpthread-stubs" solved the issue for me when it comes to girara. However, once i am trying to brew install zathura-pdf-mupdf, i get the following error in the last installation of the zathura package:

Installing zegervdv/zathura/zathura-pdf-mupdf dependency: zathura
==> meson  --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura/0.4.9 --libdir=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura/0.4.9/lib --buildtype=relea
Last 15 lines from /Users/fadde/Library/Logs/Homebrew/zathura/01.meson:
2023-01-13 11:15:12 +0000

meson
--prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura/0.4.9
--libdir=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura/0.4.9/lib
--buildtype=release
--wrap-mode=nofallback
..

Do not report this issue to Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core!

These open issues may also help:
brew install zathura-pdf-mupdf fails https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/66
Zathura crashing on segmentation fault https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/47
Zathura auto focus on open https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/62
Zathura not recognized by tiling window manager chunkwm. https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/38
zathura not showing up on MacOS https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/74
Can't install Zathura in MacOS 12.2 Beta https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/87
Cannot install zathura on Big Sur 11.5.2 https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/80
Method to run zathura as default pdf viewer https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/78
zathura isn't launched from ViM without --with-synctex https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura/issues/50

I have tried uninstalling meson and installing it again seperately, and then running the zathura install again, no success unfortunately. Have you come across this @zegervdv? Maybe im not noticing something trivial about this...

[zegervdv]

@McFrappe I'm not seeing an error here. Can you try brew rm zathura && brew install zathura?

[McFrappe]

@McFrappe I'm not seeing an error here. Can you try brew rm zathura && brew install zathura?

doing rm gives:

~ brew rm zathura
Error: No such keg: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura

Most certainly because i cannot install it in the first place...

And installing zathura results in the same error as stated above...

[zegervdv]

Can you check /Users/fadde/Library/Logs/Homebrew/zathura/01.meson for any errors? Because that output above isn't saying much

[McFrappe]

Can you check /Users/fadde/Library/Logs/Homebrew/zathura/01.meson for any errors? Because that output above isn't saying much

Yes, sorry about that, heres the output of the file 01.meson

2023-01-14 22:03:34 +0000

meson 
--prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura/0.4.9
--libdir=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/zathura/0.4.9/lib
--buildtype=release
--wrap-mode=nofallback
..

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[McFrappe]

oh, uh ok this was weird. I solved it by untapping and autoremoving packages. Then tapping again and installing solved it... Thanks anyway @zegervdv!

[zegervdv]

I guess the old 'turning it off and on again' always works. Great to hear it's fixed.