Re: gar.conf.mk: little surprises...

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Whoops... Hmm... Too many hours...  It was ./platform/libxml2

I can/will file a bug.  I am speculating that there are no formal coding
standards for GNOME. If there are none, there probably should be. If
there are, things like this should be handled.

-Joseph

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On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 17:42, guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:30 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > I ran into some python-2.4 dependency issues with last week's release so
> > I thought I would try building this week's release using python-2.4.1
> > instead of python-2.3.5, which is the current "default" on my system.
> > 
> > I edited gar.conf.mk, setting the python environment variable
> > 
> > 	PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.4
> > 
> > kicked off 
> > 
> > 	make parnoid-install > make_paranoid-install.log 2>&1 &
> > 
> > in the ./bindings directory, and went off to do some other things.
> > 
> > Later I took a look at the log and noticed that the build of libxml++
> > was using
> > 
> > 	/usr/bin/python
> > 
> > which is a link to python2.3.5. 
> > 
> > Hmmm... Why is that???
> > 
> > Setting the python environment variable is a really good idea *provided*
> > all of the GNOME applications bother to check for that environment
> > variable before hunting around the file system in the usual places for
> > an acceptable version of python. As we can see, some do, some don't.
> > 
> > This is a coding standards problem.
> 
> Maybe, yes. Anyway this would be more appropriate to tell the libxml++
> hackers or file a bug for it.
> 
> Without having a look at the respective code I suspect they used
> whatever 'which python' returned (which should be the systems default,
> shouldn't it?).
> 
> With a look at the respective code it gets even more confusing. libxml++
> doesn't seem to use Python at all, this search returns nothing:
> 
>   $ find . -type f -exec grep -H -i python {} \;
> 
> Thus wherever /usr/bin/python comes from is not libxml++ code but a
> (unused) default test?
> 
> 
> Not sure at this point, how the $PYTHON variable in gar.conf.mak is
> supposed to affect the default Python, anyway. Is this a commonly used
> variable to identify the Python to use? (Yes, I'm not a Python type of
> guy... ;)
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
> -- 
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