Incompatibility with gobject-introspection 1.86: core.record.fromarray() receives table instead of lgi.record

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Environment

• lgi: 0.9.2 (also tested with current master dfa8297)
• gobject-introspection: 1.86.0
• Lua: 5.4.8
• OS: Chimera Linux (musl libc)

Description

When loading cairo via lgi, core.record.fromarray() in ffi.lua:86
receives a Lua table instead of an lgi.record when iterating
GEnumClass.values, causing a crash at startup.

Error

lgi/ffi.lua:86: bad argument #1 to 'fromarray' (lgi.record expected, got table)

Stack trace:

[C]: in field 'fromarray' /usr/share/lua/5.4/lgi/ffi.lua:86: in function 'lgi.ffi.load_enum' /usr/share/lua/5.4/lgi/override/cairo.lua:49: in main chunk

Cause

GEnumClass.values in gobject-introspection 1.86 appears to be exposed
as a Lua table instead of a lgi.record, breaking core.record.fromarray()
in record.c. This seems to be a behavioral change in how g-i 1.86
exposes GEnumValue* arrays.

Impact

Any application using lgi + cairo on systems with gobject-introspection
1.86 (e.g. AwesomeWM) is completely broken.

[q66]

#352 , #361