[sugar] Building dbus-python

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 17:08 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> 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.
> 

The dbus-python autogen.sh doesn't automatically run configure, which is
a bit confusing and doesn't work with jhbuild. Can that be changed?

Marco