Re: [gtk-osx-users] ITSTool building error with Python built before.

[john <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Aug 15, 2022, at 9:13 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've made a fresh gtk-osx install with:
>  jhbuild bootstrap-gtk-osx
>  jhbuild build pygments
>  jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
>
> I've got this error:
>
> *** Configuring libxml2 *** [5/9]
> ...
> /Users/me/2022a/src-2022/libxml2-2.9.12/configure --prefix /Users/me/2022a/xnadalib-2022 
> --libdir="$JHBUILD_LIBDIR" --with-python  
> --with-python-install-dir=/Users/me/2022a/xnadalib-2022/lib/python3.10/site-packages
> ...
> *** Configuring itstool *** [7/9]
> ...
> checking whether /Users/me/2022a/src-2022/.new_local/share/virtualenvs/etc-Mg3srn31/bin/python3 version is 
> > = 2.6... yes
> ...
> checking for python module libxml2... /Users/me/2022a/src-2022/itstool-2.0.6/configure: line 2604: 59919 
> Done                    echo "import $py_module"
>     59920 Segmentation fault: 11  | $PYTHON - >&/dev/null
> not found
> configure: error: Python module libxml2 is needed to run this package
> *** Error during phase configure of itstool: ########## Error running 
> /Users/me/2022a/src-2022/itstool-2.0.6/configure --prefix /Users/me/2022a/xnadalib-2022    *** [7/9]
>
> itstool configure is unfortunately using $PYTHON:
>        if test -n "$PYTHON"; then
>      # If the user set $PYTHON, use it and don't search something else.
>
> which is set to (in jhbuild env):
> PYTHON=/Users/me/2022a/src-2022/.new_local/share/virtualenvs/etc-Mg3srn31/bin/python3
>
> This PYTHON variable wasn't set in January'22 the last time I ran jhbuild.
> Thus itstool was built ok.
>
> What could be a workaround?


The most straightforward is to add
    module_extra_env['itstool'] = ('PYTHON' : os.env.path(prefix, 'bin', 'python3'))
to your jhbuildrc-custom.

Regards,
John Ralls