Re: [gtk-osx-devel] Building GTK3 on OSX

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On May 22, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Matthew Allen via gtk-osx-devel-list <gtk-osx-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> I've got the boot strap now working.
>
> The next issue is that when running:
> jhbuild build python meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap meta-gtk-osx-gtk3
> I get:
> configure: error: Python module libxml2 is needed to run this package.
>
> Looking for that with find it seems to be there:
> ./gtk/inst/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
> ./gtk/inst/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libxml2mod.a
> ./gtk/inst/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libxml2.py
> ./gtk/inst/lib/python3.6/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
> ./gtk/inst/lib/libxml2.dylib
>
> Not sure why it can't find it. Its in the context of configuring itstool.
>
> Is this a known issue?

That's from itstool, right?

Drop to a shell and make sure that <prefix>/inst/lib/python3.6/site-packages is in PYTHONPATH and that `which 
python` points to the one in the virtenv.

Regards,
John Ralls