Re: [Gimp-docs] No module named libxml2

["Ulf-D. Ehlert" <ude88 web de>]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 06:26:42PM +0200, Kolbj�rn Stuest�l wrote:
> Moving my work on GIMP to another computer I run into some problems.
> 
> Example:
> make validate-nn
> Result:
> [XML] xml/nn/filters/alpha-to-logo.xml
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File ".tools/xml2po.py", line 191, in <module>
>         main<sys.argv[1:]>
>     File ".tools/xml2po.py", line 88, in Main
>         from xml2po import Main
>     File "/bin/GIMP/gimp-help-2/tools/xml2po/__init__.py", line 27,
> in <module>
>         import libxml2
> ImportError: No module named libxml2
> 
> Running python 2.6.
> I do not know about programming in Python.
> I do have a libxml2/libxml directory installed ( in
> usr/include/libxml2) but no separate files with this name.
> Question: Where is __init__.py looking for includes?

Usually Python is looking for
	/usr/lib*/python*/site-packages/libxml2.py
(try python -c "import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_path('sitelib')").

> How to fix this?

Install package "libxml2-python" (or similar, I don't know Cygwin).

> Other fixes needed?
> 
> Neither does make check-images-nn works as suggested, but I think
> this is another question.

Error messages?

> I am running Cygwin on Windows 7.

This ("Windows") *is* a bug... ;-)

Ulf

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