[Sugar-devel] Advice needed on sugar-runner

[James Cameron]

I'll speculate.  Perhaps something changed in how GObject introspection packages are built and installed between the time that sugar-runner and sugar-toolkit-gtk3 were both supported, and the time now.  If so, then commits that change Makefile.am in sugar-toolkit-gtk3 may explain.

To not speculate, use strace -f on the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 build steps to find out when and why the SugarExt typelib is installed, figure out what source file is responsible, then deduce how to make similar effect on sugar-runner.

Hope that helps!

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 04:50:44PM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
> James,
> 
> I am a novice with Make. I did look at the Make files for sugar-runner and I
> found that Makefile.in had some lines reported as Bad directive:
> 
> @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote at ./$(DEPDIR)/
> libsugarrunner_la-sugar-runner-window.Plo at am__quote@ # am--include-marker
> 
> @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote at ./$(DEPDIR)/
> libsugarrunner_la-sugar-runner.Plo at am__quote@ # am--include-marker
> 
> $(am__depfiles_remade):
> 
> @$(MKDIR_P) $(@D)
> 
> @echo '# dummy' >$@-t && $(am__mv) $@-t $@
> 
> am--depfiles: $(am__depfiles_remade)
> 
> .c.o:
> 
> @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@ $(AM_V_CC)$(COMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo 
> -c -o $@ $<
> 
> @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@ $(AM_V_at)$(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/$*.Po
> 
> @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@ $(AM_V_CC)source='$<' object='$@' libtool=no
> @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
> 
> @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@ DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp)
> @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
> 
> @am__fastdepCC_FALSE@ $(AM_V_CC at am__nodep@)$(COMPILE) -c -o $@ $<
> 
> .c.obj:
> 
> @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@ $(AM_V_CC)$(COMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo 
> -c -o $@ `$(CYGPATH_W) '$<'`
> 
> @am__fastdepCC_TRUE@ $(AM_V_at)$(am__mv) $(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo $(DEPDIR)/$*.Po
> 
> @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@ $(AM_V_CC)source='$<' object='$@' libtool=no
> @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
> 
> @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__fastdepCC_FALSE@ DEPDIR=$(DEPDIR) $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp)
> @AMDEPBACKSLASH@
> 
> @am__fastdepCC_FALSE@ $(AM_V_CC at am__nodep@)$(COMPILE) -c -o $@ `$(CYGPATH_W) '$
> <'`
> 
> The ones with red underlines are the ones. The generated Makefile does not
> report any errors.
> 
> I'm going to try generating a Makefile for sugar-toolkit-gtk3 and see if that
> suggests anything.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Make sure the typelib has been installed correctly.  Perhaps the install
>     steps are also bit rot.
> 
>     Compare the steps against the SugarExt typelib installed by the
>     sugar-toolkit-gtk3 package.
> 
>     In particular, I seem to recall an introspection scanner step is required,
>     but not sure if it is part of "make install" or if it fails if the tool is
>     not installed.
> 
>     On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 09:47:36AM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>     > I've been preparing an old computer I just replaced as a gift for a
>     bright
>     > eight year old boy and his older brother. It will run Fedora 39. In
>     addition to
>     > the XFCE environment I want to give him a Sugar environment with
>     Activities.
>     >
>     > In the process of setting this up I discovered that some of the
>     Activities I
>     > wrote years ago have succumbed to bit rot and needed updating. I was able
>     to do
>     > this, but I was disappointed to find that I could not use sugar-runner to
>     run
>     > the Sugar environment in a window because it had not been maintained.
>     >
>     > I thought I'd take a stab at getting sugar-runner working. I checked out
>     the
>     > project, installed all the dependencies autogen.sh asked for, updated the
>     > scripts to use python3, then ran what looked to be a successful make and
>     sudo
>     > make install. Then I tried to run
>     >
>     > sugar-runner
>     >
>     > and I got these Python errors:
>     >
>     > jamessimmons at unknownF4390913EB01:~$ sugar-runner
>     > Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >   File "/usr/local/bin/sugar-runner", line 28, in <module>
>     >     gi.require_version('SugarRunner', '1.0')
>     >   File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 126, in
>     > require_version
>     >     raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
>     > ValueError: Namespace SugarRunner not available
>     >
>     > At this point I'm stuck. If any of you have any suggestions on how to
>     proceed
>     > I'd love to hear them.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > James Simmons
>     >
> 
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