Re: 2.15.1, desktop/gnome-desktop, needs python libxml2 ?

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

New version in CVS-HEAD...

-Joseph

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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 12:02 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 11:59 -0400, Adam Worrall wrote:
> > On 4/29/06, Adam Worrall <abworrall gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > My mistake; I thought the '2.4' related to the version of Python :) I
> > > should have nabbed
> > > ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/libxml2-python-2.6.9.tar.gz instead,
> > > since it works fine.
> > 
> > I wrote too soon; this package is hardcoded to look for the underlying
> > libxml2 under /usr, which causes problems later on.
> > 
> > I dug a little deeper, and it turns out that the python bindings should be
> > built by platform/libxml2. In fact they are built, but they're put in the
> > wrong place; I think there is a typo line 16 of
> >   platform/libxml2/files/python/python-path-fixes.diff
> > 
> > +           PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES=$libdir/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages
> > 
> > The '/lib' needs to be removed.
> 
> Thanks, Adam, good catch. :)
> 
> Indeed, this has been mentioned on IRC just recently and needs to be
> corrected in our (interim) patches as well as upstream. FWIW, this code
> applies to systems with a custom built Python only. Affected garballs
> are bootstrap/gamin, platform/libxml2 and platform/libxslt.
> 
> These patches (well, the corrected ones hopefully) will be part of the
> next release of the above packages and where included by us, cause
> releases where not done in time for GNOME 2.15.1.
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
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