Re: [gnome-love] building gnome with jhbuild

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 10/21/06, Jan Bouma <janb linux chello nl> wrote:
> When i build gnome with jhbuild i get
> configure: error: Could not find Python module gdbm
> on the module avahi
>
> Python is installed and when i want to install python-gdbm_2.3.5-2_all.deb
> i get : Error A later version is already installed.
> So it is there .
>
> Can any one help me.
> I can't figure this one out.

jhbuild builds its own version of python in your specified prefix
(/opt/gnome2) by default.  It's part of the bootstrap stage.  It's
most likely looking there and unable to find the other package you
have installed under /usr.  I ran into a similar problem some time
ago.  I believe the following should fix this:

Install the gdbm-devel package for your distribution (it may have a
different name than 'gdbm-devel'; that's the fedora package name).

Make jhbuild think it hasn't built python yet.  Do this by editing
$prefix/share/jhbuild/packagedb.xml and remove the line containing
package="python".  Note that you'll have to manually replace $prefix
with your prefix (/opt/gnome2 by default, check your ~/.jhbuildrc to
see if you changed it)

Rebuild python.  Do this via the command
 jhbuild -m bootstrap buildone python
('jhbuild bootstrap' probably works too, fwiw, but I prefer the longer
more specific form).

Cheers,
Elijah