Re: vicious-build-scripts

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 02:38:20PM -0700, John Fleck wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 07:15:29AM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 12:24:38PM -0500, Keith Adamson wrote:
> > > I had problems with vicious-build-scripts;
> > > 
> > > gnome-core looks for libglade-convert in PATH.  This isn't 
> > > installed by libglade in a PATH directory.
> > > 
> > > Also, dependency on python >= 2 not checked by libglade ... 
> > > which is needed by libglade-convert.
> > 
> > Neither of these things are true. Libglade installs libglade-convert
> > into /gnome/head/INSTALL/bin under the default vbs setup (and into
> > whatever directory binaries normally go in all cases).
> > 
> > It also checks carefully for python >= 2.0 under a variety of names.
> > 
> 
> The python issue also tripped me up. libglade successfully
> discovered that I did not have python2, and modified libglade-convert
> appropriately to point at my python 1, but the gnome-core build then
> choked because libglade-convert requires python2 to do its thing.
> 
> This problem was solved by upgrading my python to python2.

OK, upon looking more carefully at the appropriate m4 macro, it appears
there is a bug there. I apologise; it does not detect when python 2 is
not present (it only detects the correct name for python 2). I will let
the maintainer know. That should be easy to fix.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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