Re: pycairo vs py2cairo vs py3cairo

[Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 01:49:12PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> I'm attempting to compile PyGObject, which appears to require pycairo
> or py2cairo or py3cairo.
>
> The thing is, it looks like PyGObject wants py3cairo, even though I'm
> (currently) building for Python 2.7.

How are you doing this part? Is python 3 also installed on your system?
If so maybe configuring pygobject --with-python=python27 or whatever
your python 2.7 binary is might help?

> Also, it kinda looks like py3cairo is a no-longer-used name (by the
> python cairo wrapper project), and that it's become pycairo.  And what
> used to be pycairo has been renamed py2cairo (I'm kinda guessing
> here).
>
> What do I need to do to get PyGOjbect to build?
>
> I'm currently using:
> ./python2.7/Python-2.7.6.tar.xz

> ./pygi/pycairo/pycairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2

This is the tarball which contains to py3cairo (and py3cairo.h)

> ./pygi/pixman/pixman-0.32.4.tar.gz
> ./pygi/pkg-config/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz
>  ./pygi/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.1.tar.bz2
> ./pygi/glib/glib-2.41.0.tar.xz
> ./pygi/cairo/cairo-1.12.16.tar.xz
> ./pygi/freetype2/freetype-2.5.3.tar.bz2
> ./pygi/pygobject-3.10.2.tar.xz
> ./pygi/py2cairo/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2
>  ./pygi/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection-1.40.0.tar.xz
>
> The specific error I'm getting is:
>  CC _gi_cairo_la-pygi-foreign-cairo.lo
> pygi-foreign-cairo.c:31:30: fatal error: pycairo/py3cairo.h: No such
> file or directory
>  compilation terminated.

Cheers,

Patrick