[vek perlmonk org: Re: Gtk2-1.021 make test failures]

[Kevin Spencer <vek perlmonk org>]

Forgot to cc gtk-perl-list, sorry :-(

From: Kevin Spencer <vek perlmonk org>
To: muppet <scott asofyet org>
Subject: Re: Gtk2-1.021 make test failures

Blimey, on Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:13:01PM -0500, muppet wrote:

> if i'm not mistaken, mdk 9.1 shipped with the original Inline-based 
> gtk2-perl, which was used to implement their system tools.
>
> you're failing on the two tests that load pms, and we've seen problems 
> with those particular tests picking up the installed stuff rather than 
> the blib stuff during test, causing problems because the old Inline 
> stuff (versions <=0.12 is not compatible with the xs-based stuff 
> (versions >= 0.20, including 1.021).
>
> installing the new stuff over the old stuff doesn't quite work, as the 
> .so and .pm files go to different spots in the tree, leaving the old 
> stuff installed to cause problems.
>
>
> more importantly, however --- mandrake's system tools will probably 
> break very very badly if you upgrade gtk2-perl systemwide (similar to 
> what happens to redhat 8.0's tools if you upgrade pygtk).  look through 
> the README for a description of how to set up an installation of the 
> perl modules into a non-system place and include them via environment 
> variables.

Thanks for the tip muppet.  So, here's where I'm at.  I installed
Gtk2-1.021 in a non-systemwide directory.  Still having problems.  Even
though I specify my local directory lib path first in PERL5LIB, the
existing mdk 9.1 Gtk2 install is still being picked up.  Here's my @INC
from perl -V:

/home/vek/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/home/vek/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/home/vek/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/home/vek/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/home/vek/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
.

A quick perl -c SimpleList.pm from my local dir results in the
following:

[vek on localhost, Linux - 2.4.21-0.13mdk, bash]-{69}
[~/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2]
->perl -c SimpleList.pm
Can't find 'boot_Gtk2__GType' symbol in
/home/vek/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so
 at
 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2/_config.pm
 line 0
         ...propagated at
                 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2/GType.pm
                 line 11.

Looke like SimpleList.pm needs Gtk2::TreeView.  None of the Tree*
modules appear to be in my local lib dir however - should they be?

[vek on localhost, Linux - 2.4.21-0.13mdk, bash]-{77}
[~/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2]
->ls -l Tree*.pm
ls: Tree*.pm: No such file or directory

So, my local SimpleList.pm is picking up Gtk2::TreeView from
/usr/lib/perl5/*/Gtk2 - probably the mdk 9.1 version.  Where can I get
the Gtk2::Tree* modules so that I can install them locally?  Couldn't
find them on the CPAN.

Thanks for your patience.

--
Kev.

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