Re: [Gimp-developer] pygtk automake problem

[Burnie West <west ieee org>]

On 08/06/2013 11:40 PM, Owen wrote:
> 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.

On 08/06/2013 10:49 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> Did you install the corresponding development packages for python, pygtk and any other needed module from 
> your distro's repository?
I'm on Fedora 18.
Found and installed pygtk2-devel, installed it together with pygtklext-devel and 
pygtksourceview-devel,
This resulted in configure success, although apparently my lcms installation 
seemed not to work.
Makes and installs fine

Thanks for your help :-)