Re: Orca Dependencies Question

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Willie Walker writes:
> It may be.  I remain perplexed whenever I run into the various terms gtk
> +, gtk+-2.0, and gtk2.  The thing we need is the GTK that is used by
> GNOME 2.14.  I think "gtk+-2.0" is the right thing and the version we
> care about is 2.8.16 or better.  The entry I put in the sample spec file
> is an attempt to reflect this, and I pulled the line from other spec
> files for other GNOME projects.

I'll double-check on the fedora-devel list, but the only gtk+ in the
Fedora repositories has filenames like gtk+-1.2.10-50, which I believe
is Gnome 1.2 (or 1.4).

On the other hand, with 'rpm -qlp [package.rpm]' you can list out what is contained within any
given .rpm, and running that command gives a possibly long list of
included files--275 in the case of:

rpm -qlp gtk2-2.8.17-2.i386.rpm  |wc -l

the latest gtk2 rpm on fedora's devel repository.


> The big issue here, however, is how to reflect build requirements vs.
> runtime requirements.  To build Orca, you need surprisingly little as
> you discovered.  Python is a very dynamic language, however, that
> resolves its dependencies at run time.  As such, you don't really
> discover what's missing until you actually try to use it.
OK. I'm beginning to grok this.

> Because of the dynamic nature of Python, I leaned towards forcing the
> runtime requirements to be build requirements in configure.in, and I
> believe you are probably running into this.  I did this to try to avoid
> users that scream "HEY! It built, but it won't run.  What did you guys
> screw up?" when in fact the problem is that they didn't have the
> necessary runtime requirements installed.

Precisely what's happening here. So, the need is to identify runtime
requirements in a form that the distro can satisfy. So, with rpm you can
also do:

rpm -q --whatprovides [module.so]

to help with correct package identifiers. How easy is it to get a list of
what Orca actually needs at runtime?

Janina

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