Re: Building Gtk-OSX (was: Intricate changes to Quartz/OSX backend)

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Paul Davis wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>  
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> turns out that this was not the issue. basically, even my jhbuild was
> too old to get this right. a new build is underway, but its now died
> claiming that we need m4 1.4 or later, and i have 1.4.13 ... sigh.
> digging in.

Having installed the new jhbuild, did you run jhbuild bootstrap?  
Remember that jhbuild sets the path to find its own stuff first.

Regards,
John Ralls