Re: [Gimp-developer] pygtk automake problem

[Owen <rcook pcug org au>]

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:07:30 -0700
Burnie West <west ieee org> wrote:

> On 08/06/2013 05:13 PM, Burnie West wrote:
> > On 08/04/2013 03:31 PM, Burnie West wrote:
> > > On 08/04/2013 02:49 PM, Owen wrote:
> > > > This might sound stupid, but do you have pygtk, ie, what is in
> > > >
> > > > ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages (on my system it's called
> > > > dist-packages)
> > > >
> > > > 2.10.4 is pretty old so if its there, the version number probably
> > > > isn't the problem.
> > > I have /usr/lib64/pygtk/2.0, which is the April 01, 2011
> > > pygtk2-2.24.0
> > >
> > > But it is not in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages.
> > > There's LOTS of stuff there, the only pyg is pygment.
> > >
> > > I made a softlink in sitepackages back to pygtk; same result.
> > > Then I recursively copied /usr/lib64/pygtk to 
> > > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages; same result.
> > config.log explains pygtk-2.0.pc is missing --
> > "Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygtk-2.0.pc'"
> >
> > The statement is true.
> > However, no directory in my system contains that specific
> > configuration file. I have so far not figured out precisely how to
> > create a configuration file. Perhaps someone could show me an
> > example? TIA
> Please forgive this string of messages, which I think may be related
> to the 'git problem' thread
>
> Absent a response, I hand-built (with considerable reluctance) a
> pygtk-2.0.pc and put it in my configuration path:
> My pygtk-2.0.pc is
>
>      prefix=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>      exec_prefix={prefix}
>      data_dir=/usr/share/doc/pygtk2-2.24.0
>      libdir={prefix}
>
>      Name: pygtk2
>      Description: Extension module for Python for GTK+-2
>      Version: 2.24.0
>
> This was progress, b/c I now proceed to this error:
>      configure: error:
>      *** Could not find pygtk-codegen-2.0 script.
> Searching on-line, I find this information from an unrelated source 
> (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/14888):
> "If "pygtk-codegen-2.0" is deprecated, then upstream scripts that
> call it should be updated to call "pygobject-codegen-2.0".
>
> It is undoubtedly clear to the awesome GIMP developers - as it is
> clear to me - that I'm over my head here.



I don't have past message in this thread so I don't know your
OS/platform.

However, you have done the wrong thing by hand rolling a .pc file. 

On this Suse-12.3 I have two packages, python-gtk and python-gtk-devel

When the ...-devel package is installed, the pc file is also installed,
together with all other dependencies to support  the "devel" file. 

So have a look round for python-gtk-devel, or might be pygtk-dev in
other distros.



-- 
Owen