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+# Inherit this class in recipes to enable building their introspection files
+
+# python3native is inherited to prevent introspection tools being run with
+# host's python 3 (they need to be run with native python 3)
+#
+# This also sets up autoconf-based recipes to build introspection data (or not),
+# depending on distro and machine features (see gobject-introspection-data class).
+inherit python3native gobject-introspection-data
+EXTRA_OECONF_prepend_class-target = "${@bb.utils.contains('GI_DATA_ENABLED', 'True', '--enable-introspection', '--disable-introspection', d)} "
+
+# When building native recipes, disable introspection, as it is not necessary,
+# pulls in additional dependencies, and makes build times longer
+EXTRA_OECONF_prepend_class-native = "--disable-introspection "
+EXTRA_OECONF_prepend_class-nativesdk = "--disable-introspection "
+
+UNKNOWN_CONFIGURE_WHITELIST_append = " --enable-introspection --disable-introspection"
+
+# Generating introspection data depends on a combination of native and target
+# introspection tools, and qemu to run the target tools.
+DEPENDS_append_class-target = " gobject-introspection gobject-introspection-native qemu-native prelink-native"
+
+# Even though introspection is disabled on -native, gobject-introspection package is still
+# needed for m4 macros.
+DEPENDS_append_class-native = " gobject-introspection-native"
+DEPENDS_append_class-nativesdk = " gobject-introspection-native"
+
+# This is used by introspection tools to find .gir includes
+export XDG_DATA_DIRS = "${STAGING_DATADIR}"
+
+do_configure_prepend_class-target () {
+    # introspection.m4 pre-packaged with upstream tarballs does not yet
+    # have our fixes
+    mkdir -p ${S}/m4
+    cp ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}/${datadir}/aclocal/introspection.m4 ${S}/m4
+}
+
+# .typelib files are needed at runtime and so they go to the main package (so
+# they'll be together with libraries they support).
+FILES_${PN}_append = " ${libdir}/girepository-*/*.typelib" 
+    
+# .gir files go to dev package, as they're needed for developing (but not for
+# running) things that depends on introspection.
+FILES_${PN}-dev_append = " ${datadir}/gir-*/*.gir"