Re: deskbar preventing garnome-2.14.1 compile

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

The output indicates that configure detected the system version of
python, version 2.3 installed under /usr/bin,  rather than python2.4
installed under $HOME/garnome.

Try this...

        Edit gar.conf.mk to explicitly set the PYTHON environment
        variable to point at the version in $HOME/garnome/bin.
        

There are three other applications that may [or may not] give you grief:
* bootstrap/gamin
* platform/libxml2
* platform/libxslt

If you encounter difficulties with these apps, fetch the versions from
CVS-HEAD which have been patched to build and install correctly when
using python installed in a non-standard location.

-Joseph

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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:24 -0700, Keith Vertrees wrote:
> Hello, I'm having trouble with the deskbar applet preventing compilation
> of garnome-2.14.1.
> 
> I searched the mailing list archives and the most promising lead I found
> was:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2006-February/msg00028.html
> 
> Unfortunately, while that problem was very similar to what I'm seeing,
> the patch they describe integrating is already in garnome-2.14.1.
> 
> I believe my problem is caused because:
> 1. I installed a new version of Python just for garnome (e.g. --prefix=
>    $HOME/garnome); and
> 2. For some reason, deskbar's configure script does not understand that
>    completely.
> 
> Here are the last few lines of the 'make install' attempt:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> checking whether /usr/bin/python version >= 2.3... yes
> checking for /usr/bin/python version... 2.3
> checking for /usr/bin/python platform... linux2
> checking for /usr/bin/python script directory...
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
> checking for /usr/bin/python extension module directory...
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
> checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found
> checking for pkg-config... /home/keith/garnome/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for DESKBAR... yes
> checking for python version... (cached) 2.3
> checking for python platform... (cached) linux2
> checking for python script directory... (cached)
> ${prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
> checking for python extension module directory... (cached)
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
> checking for gnomeapplet module... no
> configure: error: gnomeapplet module required to build deskbar
> make: *** [configure-work/main.d/deskbar-applet-2.14.1/configure] Error
> 1
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The files
> $HOME/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnomeapplet.so
> $HOME/garnome/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnomeapplet.la
> exist.  I think that means that gnomeapplet is installed in my garnome
> version of Python.
> 
> deskbar seems to look for /usr/bin/python, ignoring the fact that
> $HOME/garnome/bin/python exists and is a newer version.  All of the
> other garnome components found the correct python without any
> intervention by me.
> 
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