[Sugar-devel] Obsolete jhbuild start script, do run 'make install'

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Wed May 20 10:48:19 EDT 2009


On 05/20/2009 04:40 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 20 May 2009, at 12:00, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>
>> On 05/19/2009 10:52 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>> Anyone managed to work around the "Obsolete jhbuild start script, do
>>> run 'make install'" yet? I'd been religiously avoiding updating sugar-
>>> jubuild for a few weeks as it was working fine (other than going out
>>> of date) and I'd noticed a whole rash of other folks emailing and
>>> trac'ing with issues. I finally tried today and things broke, as I'd
>>> feared :-(
>>>
>>> Have an F10 VM running sugar-jhbuild that was working just fine until
>>> I tried to refresh, Sascha has mentioned that the jhbuild git rep has
>>> been recently moved, and the below ticket:
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582490
>>>
>>> on SL ticket:
>>>
>>> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/857
>>>
>>> But I found neither a ~/bin/ or ~/.local/bin/, and nothing seems to
>>> want to 'make install'.
>>>
>>> Any hints appreciated!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> --Gary
>>
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> #857 does contain a fix now - which does work for me. Looks good to me
>> - but want that our sugar-jhbuild maintainer has a quick look at it as
>> well :)
>
> Fab, thanks Simon. The changes to the sugar-jhbuild script work well for
> me here, all up and running again. FWIW I did have one other issue I had
> to manually fix before I could successfully build, the error was:
>
> *** Building sugar-update-control *** [22/37]
> python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "setup.py", line 2, in <module>
> from DistUtilsExtra.command import * # gettext support
> ImportError: No module named DistUtilsExtra.command
>
> I re-tried:
>
> ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck
>
> ...but this gave no indication that the module was needed, or missing,
> so I manually installed it with:
>
> sudo yum install python-distutils-extra
>
> Build was all happy after this.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary

Great. We should check that all the deps are setup correctly.

That might be something else you run into: 
http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/861

Cheers,
    Simon




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