V8 GN Build Generatiion failure on Debian 9.0 '4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux'

v8gen.py_debian9.txt

$ tools/dev/v8gen.py -vv x64.debug
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/usr/bin/python -u tools/mb/mb.py gen -f infra/mb/mb_config.pyl -m developer_default -b x64.debug out.gn/x64.debug

  Writing """\
  is_debug = true
  target_cpu = "x64"
  v8_enable_backtrace = true
  v8_enable_slow_dchecks = true
  v8_optimized_debug = false
  """ to /home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/out.gn/x64.debug/args.gn.

  /home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/buildtools/linux64/gn gen out.gn/x64.debug --check
    -> returned 1
  ERROR at //build/config/linux/pkg_config.gni:103:17: Script returned non-zero exit code.
      pkgresult = exec_script(pkg_config_script, args, "value")
                  ^----------
  Current dir: /home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/out.gn/x64.debug/
  Command: python -- /home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/build/config/linux/pkg-config.py -s /home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/build/linux/debian_jessie_amd64-sysroot -a x64 glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gobject-2.0 gthread-2.0
  Returned 1.
  stderr:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/build/config/linux/pkg-config.py", line 219, in <module>
      sys.exit(main())
    File "/home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/build/config/linux/pkg-config.py", line 138, in main
      prefix = GetPkgConfigPrefixToStrip(options, args)
    File "/home/atiq/jv8_2017-07-22-GN/v8/build/config/linux/pkg-config.py", line 80, in GetPkgConfigPrefixToStrip
      "--variable=prefix"] + args, env=os.environ)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 212, in check_output
      process = Popen(stdout=PIPE, *popenargs, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 390, in __init__
      errread, errwrite)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1024, in _execute_child
      raise child_exception
  OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

  See //build/config/linux/BUILD.gn:83:3: whence it was called.
    pkg_config("glib") {
    ^-------------------
  See //build/config/compiler/BUILD.gn:171:18: which caused the file to be included.
      configs += [ "//build/config/linux:compiler" ]
                   ^------------------------------
  GN gen failed: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tools/dev/v8gen.py", line 304, in <module>
    sys.exit(gen.main())
  File "tools/dev/v8gen.py", line 298, in main
    return self._options.func()
  File "tools/dev/v8gen.py", line 166, in cmd_gen
    gn_outdir,
  File "tools/dev/v8gen.py", line 208, in _call_cmd
    stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 219, in check_output
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python', '-u', 'tools/mb/mb.py', 'gen', '-f', 'infra/mb/mb_config.pyl', '-m', 'developer_default', '-b', 'x64.debug', 'out.gn/x64.debug']' returned non-zero exit status 1

I'm seeing the same error on Ubuntu 16.04, while trying to setup a build for Android, using V8 tag v6.2.414.37. Does anyone know anymore about this problem?

Hello,

I got the same problem building V8 using GN in an Ubuntu 16.04 Box. Does anyone find a solution ?