Re: Intricate changes to Quartz/OSX backend

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Paul Davis wrote:

> I'm starting a build with moduleset-unstable. I've run into a fairly
> problem  at the meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap stage:
>
> *** Checking out docbook-setup *** [2/13]
> jhbuild build: failed to unpack /Users/paul/gtk/source/pkgs/DB_1
>
> there is nothing wrong with the downloaded tarball - i can unpack it
> manually into ~/gtk/source without any issues. but jhbuild refuses to
> believe it can do this. anybody got any clues? or hints on how to get
> more info?

When I've encountered that in the past it's been because Python was  
too old: Jhbuild's tarball.py uses a function that's only available in  
Python 2.5. While jhbuild bootstrap will install a new Python for you  
on Tiger (which comes with Python 2.3), the new version isn't used to  
run jhbuild itself unless you tell it to.

See http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gtk-osx/wiki/Build

Please use the Gtk-OSX mailing list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=gtk-osx-users 
) or forum (http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/gtk-osx/)  for Gtk-OSX  
issues.

Regards,
John Ralls