Re: [gtk-osx-devel] configure: error: Python module libxml2 is needed to run this package

[Jim Charlton <charltn gmail com>]

On 14-12-23 12:23 PM, Philip Chimento wrote:

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jim Charlton <charltn gmail com> wrote:

I am building gtk-osx on MAC Yosemite 10.10

1. gtk-osx-build-setup.sh

2. export PATH=$PATH:/Users/chartech/.local/bin

3. Added lines

checkoutroot = os.path.expanduser("/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/Source/gtk")
prefix = os.path.expanduser("/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst")
os.environ["ARCHFLAGS"] = "-arch x86_64"

to .jhbuildrc-custom as I want the installation in a non-standard location.

4. jhbuild bootstrap
5. alias jhbuild="PATH=/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/bin:$PATH jhbuild"
6. jhbuild build python
7. jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap

In step 7 I get a configure error while building itstool. "configure: error: Python module libxml2 is needed to run this package"

I have run this sequence before on MAVERICKS (10.9.5) with no problem.  Must be something about the way the python libs are being installed or used but I cannot figure it out.

Any help would be appreciated.

You may need to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to include /Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/lib/python2.7/site-packages (check that there is a libxml2.py file there.)

Regards,

--

Philip

Further to my initial posting, the configure error comes from .../gtk/Source/gtk/itstool-2.0.2/configure
.
.
.
py_module=libxml2
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for python module $py_module" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking for python module $py_module... " >&6; }
echo "import $py_module" | python - &>/dev/null
if test $? -ne 0; then
    { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: not found" >&5
$as_echo "not found" >&6; }
    as_fn_error $? "Python module $py_module is needed to run this package" "$LINENO" 5
else
    { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: found" >&5
$as_echo "found" >&6; }
fi
.
.
.
The if test $? ...  fails and the error is generated.  But the file libxml2.py does exist at /Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.py and PYTHON environment variables are set as
PYTHON=/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/bin/python
PYTHONPATH=/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/lib/python2.7:/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0:/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/lib/python2.7/site-packages
PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES=/Applications/Drumroaster/gtk/inst/lib/python2.7/site-packages

If I edit the configure script to force the "if test $? ... line to exit to the "else" statement then the installation of itstool completes.  But then 'jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap' will fail later at

*** Building gtk-doc *** [12/13]
make -j 2
Making all in help
Making all in manual
  GEN    bn_IN/
  GEN    de/
Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
/bin/sh: line 1:  3055 Abort trap: 6           itstool -m "${mo}" ${d}/C/index.docbook ${d}/C/fdl-appendix.xml
make[2]: *** [de/de.stamp] Error 134
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/bin/sh: line 1:  3054 Abort trap: 6           itstool -m "${mo}" ${d}/C/index.docbook ${d}/C/fdl-appendix.xml
make[2]: *** [bn_IN/bn_IN.stamp] Error 134
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error during phase build of gtk-doc: ########## Error running make -j 2 *** [12/13]

I may eventually figure this out.  Best of the season...   jim...