This is gtk 3.11.8. When building evince 3.11.90 with introspection enabled the build crashes.

I enabled GI_SCANNER_DEBUG=save-temps so that introspection keeps the temporal files needed to reproduce the problem. I also built gtk and evince with debug symbols.

It would appear the build fails because gdk_screen_get_setings gets called with screen=0x0 and so when dereferencing the pointer the build gets killed with a segfault.

The command evince executes is:

     EvinceView-3.0 --introspect-dump=functions.txt,dump.xml

This is the backtrace of the command introspection issues:

     http://pastebin.com/yVDiQTUN

Don't know if it is evince's or introspection's fault, or if screen needs to be checked. This issue prevents the build of evince with introspection support and thus the build of other components in gnome3 that depend on inrospection support in evince.