Re: Request: Documentation for PYGTK, as queried by autogen during EOG plugin build

[Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>]

Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 11:09 -0400 schrieb Tom Holaday:
> Hello EOG team,
> 

Hi!

> The EOG plugins slideshowshuffle and pythonconsole are disabled by
> autogen, apparently because of a failure return of a check on PYGTK.
> Log extract:
> 
> ----- log -----
> 
> checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.3... python
> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> checking for python version... 2.6
> checking for python platform... linux2
> checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> checking for python extension module directory...
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> checking for PYGTK... no
> configure: WARNING: Python not found, disabling python support
> 
> ---- end log ----
> 
> However, both Python and pygtk are installed:
> A grep for PYGTK in the tree rooted from
> /usr/share/doc/python-gtk2-doc/html returned no rows.
> 
> It appears from the configuration script that PYGTK is an expected
> environment variable.  If this is so, what package sets it?  Does the
> value matter?
> 
> Build platform: Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), Gnome 2.26.1
> 

The python part of eog-plugins' configure script is IIRC mostly copied
from eog's. Due to this it also has a dependency on gnome-desktop (not
sure if it's actually needed), which is also included in the above PYGTK
check. The config.log file should give more details here.

Felix