Re: Garnome 2.22.0: ffi missing as a dependency of pygtk, as a dependency of alacarte

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:05 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm doing a "make paranoid-install" (in the *desktop* directory *g*) and
> it fails to build alacarte. In config.log, there's:
> 
> configure:6469: $? = 0
> configure:6545: result: yes
> configure:6550: checking for pygtk 2.8.0 installed for python 2.4
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
>   File "/data/Gnome2.22/garnome/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/__init__.py",
> line 30, in <module>
>     from gobject.constants import *
>   File "/data/Gnome2.22/garnome/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/constants.py",
> line 22, in <module>
>     from _gobject import type_from_name
> ImportError: libffi.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> configure:6561: result: not found
> configure:6563: error: required pygtk version not found
> 
> libffi isn't shipped with Garnome 2.22.0, is it? I'm using Gentoo
> Linux ~x86 and don't have the libffi package installed. Should
> libffi be a dependency that's supposed to be shipped by the
> Linux distribution?

Yes, this should be shipped by your distro as part of python.

  guenther


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