Re: 2.15.1, desktop/gnome-desktop, needs python libxml2 ?

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

Adam,

>From the DEPS-LIST you will note that GARNOME requires two external
python packages:

* Pyrex
* PyXML

-Joseph

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On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:44 -0400, Adam Worrall wrote:
> While getting 2.15.1 up and running on fc3/x86_64, with a custom
> python (v2.4), I bumped into this:
> 
> make[7]: Entering directory
> `/foo/src/work/gnome-desktop/main.d/gnome-desktop-2.15.1/desktop-docs/fdl'
> if ! test -d es/; then mkdir es/; fi
> case "." in /*) sd=".";; *) sd="../.";; esac; \
> if [ -f "C/fdl.xml" ]; then d="../"; else d="$sd/"; fi; \
> (cd es/ && \
>   `which xml2po` -e -p \
>     "${d}es/es.po" \
>     "${d}C/fdl.xml" > fdl.xml.tmp && \
>     cp fdl.xml.tmp fdl.xml && rm -f fdl.xml.tmp)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 34, in ?
>     import libxml2
> ImportError: No module named libxml2
> 
> I grabbed and installed
> ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/libxml2-python-2.4.30.tar.gz.
> 
> This got me only one step further:
> 
> make[7]: Entering directory
> `/foo/src/work/gnome-desktop/main.d/gnome-desktop-2.15.1/desktop-docs/fdl'
> if ! test -d es/; then mkdir es/; fi
> case "." in /*) sd=".";; *) sd="../.";; esac; \
> if [ -f "C/fdl.xml" ]; then d="../"; else d="$sd/"; fi; \
> (cd es/ && \
>   `which xml2po` -e -p \
>     "${d}es/es.po" \
>     "${d}C/fdl.xml" > fdl.xml.tmp && \
>     cp fdl.xml.tmp fdl.xml && rm -f fdl.xml.tmp)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 724, in ?
>     doSerialize(doc)
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 482, in doSerialize
>     outtxt += doSerialize(child)
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 476, in doSerialize
>     (starttag, content, endtag, translation) = processElementTag(node, repl, 1)
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 399, in processElementTag
>     (starttag, content, endtag, translation) =
> processElementTag(child, myrepl, 0)
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 399, in processElementTag
>     (starttag, content, endtag, translation) =
> processElementTag(child, myrepl, 0)
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 395, in processElementTag
>     myrepl.append(processElementTag(child, myrepl, 1))
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 399, in processElementTag
>     (starttag, content, endtag, translation) =
> processElementTag(child, myrepl, 0)
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 410, in processElementTag
>     starttag = startTagForNode(node)
>   File "/foo/bin/xml2po", line 233, in startTagForNode
>     for p in node.properties:
> TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
> make[7]: *** [es/fdl.xml] Error 1
> 
> Does anyone have any tips on this python business ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  - Adam
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