[sugar] Building dbus-python

[John J5 Palmieri]

On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 17:36 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are having problems building latest dbus-python git with jhbuild. A
> log of the build follows. Any idea? jhbuild is using distutils but I see
> dbus-python also have configure.ac/Makefile.am, I couldn't get it to
> work using auto* either though.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco
> 
> 
> git pull
> Already up-to-date.
> *** Building dbus-python *** [1/1]
> 
> python setup.py build
> running build
> running build_py
> file dbus/introspect_parser.py (for module dbus/introspect_parser) not
> found
> file dbus/introspect_parser.py (for module dbus/introspect_parser) not
> found
> running build_ext
> building '_dbus_bindings' extension
> gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic
> -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -I. -Iinclude
> -I/home/marco/sugar-jhbuild/build/include/dbus-1.0
> -I/home/marco/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/dbus-1.0/include
> -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c _dbus_bindings/module.c -o
> build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/_dbus_bindings/module.o
> _dbus_bindings/module.c:24:20: error: config.h: No such file or
> directory
> _dbus_bindings/module.c: In function ?init_dbus_bindings?:
> _dbus_bindings/module.c:357: error: ?PACKAGE_VERSION? undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> _dbus_bindings/module.c:357: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once
> _dbus_bindings/module.c:357: error: for each function it appears in.)
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 

Latest git has moved back to autotools because of distutils just doesn't
handle c code very well.  JHBuild needs to be fixed to use the autotools
method of building.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>