Building audio analysis library Essentia failed with Gaia support - c++

Question

I am trying to build Essentia (https://github.com/MTG/essentia), an audio analysis library, with Gaia (https://github.com/MTG/gaia) support in Debian 9.0 from source. Before that, one of its dependencies, namely Gaia, was successfully built, also, from source. It was installed in /usr/local/.
When it comes to Essentia, compilation of sources fails with the following errors:
[...]
In file included from ../src/algorithms/essentia_algorithms_reg.cpp:21:0:
../src/algorithms/highlevel/gaiatransform.h: At global scope:
../src/algorithms/highlevel/gaiatransform.h:37:10: error: ‘TransfoChain’ in namespace ‘gaia2’ does not name a type
gaia2::TransfoChain _history;
^~~~~~~~~~~~
../src/algorithms/highlevel/gaiatransform.h: In constructor ‘essentia::standard::GaiaTransform::GaiaTransform()’:
../src/algorithms/highlevel/gaiatransform.h:47:5: error: ‘init’ is not a member of ‘gaia2’
gaia2::init();
^~~~~
../src/algorithms/highlevel/gaiatransform.h:47:5: note: suggested alternative:
In file included from ../src/essentia/algorithmfactory.h:27:0,
from ../src/algorithms/essentia_algorithms_reg.cpp:1:
../src/essentia/essentia.h:46:6: note: ‘essentia::init’
void init();
^~~~
The file where the error lies is /src/algorithms/essentia_algorithms_reg.cpp and here is the command which the file is compiled with:
/usr/bin/g++ -pipe -Wall -std=c++03 -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -fPIC -pthread -Isrc -I../src -Isrc/essentia -I../src/essentia -Isrc/essentia/scheduler -I../src/essentia/scheduler -Isrc/essentia/streaming -I../src/essentia/streaming -Isrc/essentia/streaming/algorithms -I../src/essentia/streaming/algorithms -Isrc/essentia/utils -I../src/essentia/utils -Isrc/3rdparty -I../src/3rdparty -Isrc/3rdparty/spline -I../src/3rdparty/spline -Isrc/3rdparty/vamp-plugin-sdk-2.4 -I../src/3rdparty/vamp-plugin-sdk-2.4 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/include/taglib -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/local/include/gaia2/ -DHAVE_AVCODEC=1 -DHAVE_AVFORMAT=1 -DHAVE_AVUTIL=1 -DHAVE_AVRESAMPLE=1 -DHAVE_SAMPLERATE=1 -DHAVE_TAGLIB=1 -DHAVE_YAML=1 -DHAVE_FFTW=1 -DHAVE_GAIA2=1 -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -DPYTHONDIR="/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages" -DPYTHONARCHDIR="/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages" -DHAVE_PYEMBED=1 -DHAVE_PYEXT=1 -DHAVE_PYTHON_H=1 ../src/algorithms/essentia_algorithms_reg.cpp -c -o/home/hamidi/essentia/build/src/algorithms/essentia_algorithms_reg.cpp.1.o -fPIC -v
g++'s -v option gave me the actual paths visited by the linker (nothing bad in there, I think, but for the sake of completeness):
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
src
../src
src/essentia
../src/essentia
src/essentia/scheduler
../src/essentia/scheduler
src/essentia/streaming
../src/essentia/streaming
src/essentia/streaming/algorithms
../src/essentia/streaming/algorithms
src/essentia/utils
../src/essentia/utils
src/3rdparty
../src/3rdparty
src/3rdparty/spline
../src/3rdparty/spline
src/3rdparty/vamp-plugin-sdk-2.4
../src/3rdparty/vamp-plugin-sdk-2.4
/usr/include/taglib
/usr/include/qt4
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore
/usr/local/include/gaia2/
/usr/include/c++/6
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/c++/6
/usr/include/c++/6/backward
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/include
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/include-fixed
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/include
End of search list.
Here are the files (github repo) involved in the error:
MTG/gaia/blob/master/src/gaia.h
MTG/gaia/blob/master/src/transformation.h#L106
/MTG/essentia/blob/master/src/algorithms/highlevel/gaiatransform.h

Answer 1

It is finally an error that occurred while configuring Gaia that caused the problem. Actually, rather than using merely the following options for configuration:
./waf configure --with-python-bindings --with-asserts --with-cyclops
the option --with-stlfacade was added by inadvertence. This option is not compatible when using Gaia in conjunction with Essentia.