Re: Python & libxml2/libxslt/gamin

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

Kenneth,


Did you modify gar.conf.mk to explicitly use your new version of Python?

I am running YDL-4.0.1, which also comes with Python2.3.  I built and
installed 2.4.1 under /opt.  I have modified gar.conf.mk as follows

        # If you want to use a different version of python everywhere
        # change this
        # PYTHON = $(shell which python)
        PYTHON = /opt/python-2.4.1/bin/python

With this modification libxml2, libxslt, and gamin build for both
garnome-2.12.2.1 and garnome-2.13.4.

To get the applications to run with the correct python site-packages, I
export PYTHONPATH in garnome-session

        [ignore line wrap]
        PYTHONPATH=$GARNOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages:$GARNOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0

where $GARNOME is the root of the garnome install tree on my system.

-Joseph

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On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 21:08 -0700, Kenneth Murray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still running Fedora 3, which comes with Python 2.3. Because dbus
> needs at least Python 2.4, I compiled and installed 2.4 in /usr/local.
> dbus finds this version just fine, but libxml2, libxslt and gamin now
> fail to build their python stuff. Something like this issue has been
> covered before on this list:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2005-July/msg00199.html
> 
> Joseph Sacco encouraged the author of libxml2/libxslt/gamin to add
> support for the PYTHON environment variable in the configure scripts,
> but that doesn't work for me. PYTHON is found, but the headers are not.
> 
> Attached is a patch for the libxml2 garball. The libxml2/configure.in
> script now uses a canned Automake macro to find the Python headers. The
> macro, added to libxml2/acinclude.m4, is taken from the dbus package.
> The Makefile for the garball now runs autoreconfig before configure to
> regenerate the configure script and a Makefile where I twiddled
> Makefile.am.
> 
> I've never played with autotools before and I'm not a programmer, but
> this compiles successfully, and the resulting garnome suite seems to
> work. However, I don't know how to really test the libxml2 python stuff,
> could someone tell me how?
> 
> Also, if this works for others, I've got similar (almost identical)
> patches for libxslt and gamin. Let me know if I should post them to 
> the list.
> 
> By the way, thanks for garnome.
> 
> Kenneth
> 
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