Re: [gtk-osx-users] install problems: python and https

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Mar 8, 2016, at 7:25 AM, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
>
> Hi John, thanks for the quick reply.
>
> On 8 March 2016 at 15:09, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
> > Yes, Python would need the OpenSSL headers in order to build with SSL support. There is an OpenSSL module, 
> > but it requires manual intervention to build: The build will stop. Select 4 to get a shell, run `make && 
> > make install_sw`, ^D to return to jhbuild, select 2 to skip building again and 2 again when it barfs on 
> > installing the man pages. Force-clean rebuild Python afterward to get the SSL support included.
>
> I'll try this, thanks!
>
> > But why do you want to use your gtk-osx python for running jhbuild? Once you've got the link fixed just 
> > use the Apple one.
>
> The Apple one makes meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap fail for me, I see:
>
> $ jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
> ...
> checking for python module libxml2... not found
> configure: error: Python module libxml2 is needed to run this package
> *** Error during phase configure of itstool: ########## Error running
> ./configure --prefix /Users/john/gtk/inst    *** [7/12]
>
> I hoped the gtk-osx python would include this. And I remember (years
> ago admittedly) gobject-introspection also had problems with the Apple
> py. Perhaps that's fixed now.

Not quite. Yes, both itstool and gobject-introspection require a jhbuild-built python. Once it's built they 
(and every thing else in that jhbuild environment) use it because jhbuild puts $PREFIX first in $PATH. That 
doesn't mean that jhbuild itself needs to be run in that python.

Regards,
John Ralls