Re: [orca-list] Error building Orca on Ubuntu 11.10

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Paul, all.

On 11/15/2011 12:09 PM, Paul Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just pulled Orca from git master and tried to build it but got the
> following error output after the ./autogen.sh
>
> I've only just started getting this, it usually builds no problem.
>
> The machine is running Ubuntu 11.10 with all available updates installed.
>
> **Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
> If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
> `./autogen.sh' command line.
>
> configure: error: Package requirements (pygobject-3.0 >= 3.0.2) were not
> met:
>
> Requested 'pygobject-3.0 >= 3.0.2' but version of PyGObject is 3.0.0

The latest Orca now depends on pygobject 3.0.2 for bug fixes in 
pygobject that Orca expects to have.

As a reminder to all: Any given branch of Orca is designed only for the 
corresponding GNOME release with which is it associated. In other words, 
Orca 3.0 is for GNOME 3.0. Orca 3.2 is for GNOME 3.2. Orca master is 
always for the next version of GNOME (in this case 3.4).

Often you can "get away with" using Orca from master in earlier versions 
of GNOME. In fact, that's something we've always strived to make 
possible -- and hope to make possible again soon because we want users 
to be able to have the latest features and fixes in Orca without always 
having to upgrade the rest of their system. However, Orca depends on a 
number of components and with the recent conversion to use gobject 
introspection, some of those other components are still in the process 
of evolving. Once things settle down on that front a bit more, we should 
be back to the point where *most of the time* master can be used on 
earlier versions of GNOME.

Take care.
--joanie