* gnu/packages/glib.scm (itstool): Update to 2.0.6.
[inputs]: Change PYTHON2-LIBXML and PYTHON-2 to PYTHON-LIBXML and PYTHON.
* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (totem)[inputs]: Change PYTHON-2 to PYTHON.
The 1.60.x releases are the last ones to support Autotools.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (gobject-introspection)[build-system]: Change to
MESON-BUILD-SYSTEM.
[arguments]: Remove <#:parallel-build?> and <#:tests?>.
[native-inputs]: Remove AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (glib): Update to 2.60.4.
[source](snippet): New field.
[arguments]: Remove obsolete DETERMINISTIC_BUILD variable. Disable two tests,
and override the 'check' phase. Remove <#:parallel-build?>.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (gobject-introspection): Update to 1.58.1.
[source]: Remove snippet.
[arguments]: Add phase "do-not-use-/usr/bin/env".
[inputs]: Replace python-2 with python-wrapper; add zlib.
[native-inputs]: Add autoconf and automake to be able to keep using the
gnu-build-system.
* gnu/packages/patches/gobject-introspection-cc.patch: Update patch to apply
to latest version.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (glib): Update to 2.58.1.
[build-system]: Use meson-build-system.
[outputs]: Remove "doc" as the documentation files are no longer included.
[inputs]: Move libffi, util-linux, and zlib from here...
[propagated-inputs]: ...to here; add libselinux.
[arguments]: Remove key "disallowed-references" as it is not supported by the
meson-build-system; delete "bootstrap" phase to prevent use of autotools;
adjust "pre-build" phase; move "disable-failing-tests" phase after "unpack";
disable two more tests in "disable-failing-tests" phase; add phase
"move-executables"; remove configure flags.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (dbus)[native-inputs]: Add docbook-xml-4.4,
docbook-xsl, doxygen, xmlto, libxml2, libxslt and yelp-tools.
[outputs]: Add a "doc" output to hold the large HTML documentation.
These were fixed with <https://bugs.gnu.org/31708>.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (python-pygobject, python2-pygobject)[native-inputs]:
Remove GCC-7.
* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gjs)[native-inputs]: Likewise.
[arguments]: Remove related phase.
The venerable search.cpan.org has retired[0].
[0]: https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html
* guix/import/cpan.scm (cpan-home): Generate metacpan.org home page URIs.
Update all previously generated ones in (gnu packages) to their
canonical new homes.
Constructing home pages to be version-specific is not something we
really want or do elsewhere, and interferers with mass updates like the
one I'm about to make.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (perl-net-dbus-glib)[home-page]: Use canonical
home page.
* gnu/packages/perl-check.scm (perl-test-nowarnings, perl-test-output)
(perl-test-simple, perl-test-tester)[home-page]: Likewise.
* gnu/packages/perl.scm (perl-benchmark-timer, perl-clone)
(perl-digest-sha1, perl-file-which, perl-getopt-tabular, perl-io-string)
(perl-ipc-run3, perl-probe-perl, perl-regexp-common, perl-sys-cpu)
[home-page]: Likewise.
* gnu/packages/tcl.scm (perl-tk)[home-page]: Likewise.
* gnu/packages/tls.scm (perl-net-ssleay)[home-page]: Likewise.
* gnu/packages/web.scm (perl-www-curl)[home-page]: Likewise.
* gnu/packages/xml.scm (perl-xml-dom)[home-page]: Likewise.
* gnu/packages/xorg.scm (perl-x11-protocol-other)[home-page]: Likewise.
Marius Bakke