Re: [orca-list] Building Orca for python3

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Paul.

On 06/22/2012 02:09 PM, Paul Hunt wrote:

> As the subject line suggests I'm trying to build Orca from master to use
> python3.

Yay! Thank you!! :)

> I have at-spi2-core, at-spi2-atk, atk and pyatspi2 from their respective
> master branches.

Did you see Mike Gorse's message in which he encouraged people to avoid
at-spi2-atk from master because things are totally up in the air right
now and might result in things seeming broken accessibility wize? Keep
in mind the reason they are up in the air is because we're heading
towards an "accessibility always on" world. (Yay!) But we're just
starting and it's a brave and bumpy new world.

So undo that change because aside from possible breakage, you may get
test results which are not valid.

Do build pyatspi2 from master for python 3. That is safe and needed.

> Now my problem is that when I run Orca's ./autogen.sh I get an error
> that the python module cairo cannot be found.
>
> I ran 'sudo apt-get install python3-cairo' which worked and when I start
> the python3 interpretter
> I can import cairo however the autogen script still says it cannot be
> found.

Do you have a python3-cairo-dev package?

> Any help?  Or should I really not be trying to get this working on gnome
> 3.4...

I did all the work in GNOME 3.4 in Fedora 17. So it is possible. But
just stay away from the latest at-spi2-atk until Mike gives the all clear.

Take care.
--joanie