[sugar] sugar-jhbuild changes

[Mike Hunter]

On Feb 01 at 17:20, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:02 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote:
[snip]
> > I've gotten past most of the sanity check with standard apt-get /
> > synaptic cherry-picking, but I'm stuck on python.  Ubuntu seems to
> > default to python 2.4.  I installed python 2.5, but I see the sanity
> > check doing `python -V` and it's failing because of this:
> > 
> > % ls -l /usr/bin/python*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       9 2007-01-31 18:23 /usr/bin/python -> python2.4
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1019680 2006-10-11 17:52 /usr/bin/python2.4
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1145032 2006-10-06 11:23 /usr/bin/python2.5
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1276 2006-10-06 11:23 /usr/bin/python2.5-config
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3031632 2006-10-06 11:13 /usr/bin/python2.5-dbg
> > 
> > This could be considered an ubuntu-specific problem, but do you have any
> > suggestions on how to proceed?  I'm trying hard to build this server
> > without my usual dirty simlink hacknig :)  Should I uninstall python
> > 2.4?  (I have a feeling ubuntu's not going to like that).  Is there a
> > way I could give sugar a hint about the non-standard python 2.5 path?
> 
> If python 2.5 is not the distribution default then you will have to
> build the base packages (as explained by sanity check). The problem is
> that a lot of python packages (pygtk for example) are built against 2.4
> and so they would not work.

I tried build-base but it errored out:

configure: error: could not find DocBook XLS Stylesheet in XML catalog
...
gtk-doc [5/29]

I've got a fresh batch of patience for these build errors, so let me
know what I can do :)

Mike