[Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Sunday, October 16, 2011 07:01:15 am Philippe DIDIER wrote:
> Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
> > Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
> >> On Saturday, October 15, 2011 07:16:19 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote:
> >>> Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
> >>>> I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove
> >>>> -%{python_sitelib}/*
> >>>> Can someone who uses it please test it?
> >>> 
> >>> In the previous build (march)
> >>> python-lash rpm was created
> >>> it could install a directory
> >>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
> >>> wich contained 4 files
> >>> 
> >>>   _lash.a
> >>>   _lash.la
> >>>   _lash.so
> >>>   lash.py
> >>> 
> >>> You said you had to remove -%{python_sitelib}/* in the spec file
> >>> because there was nothing there (so your python-lash rpm seems to be
> >>> empty !)
> >>> If nothing was created in the buildroot (and no file found to be
> >>> packaged) it's perhaps a problem of config : if python was not found
> >>> (configure.ac seems to look for a path to PYTHON 2.3 !!! ) this these 4
> >>> files were not created and there's indeed nothing to install...
> >>> 
> >>> Perhaps a problem with the update of python since july ?
> >>> 
> >>> Did you get an error message complaining about a missing optional
> >>> dependency (even if that doesn't prevent to "make" what is not optional
> >>> 
> >>> : configure seems to allow to make without creating python-lash)
> >> 
> >> No, I didn't see any error messages.
> > 
> > It really looks as if the python path was not found ... (configure looks
> > for python path with this list : python2 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3
> > python2.2 python2.1 python2.0 python1.6 python1.5)
> > The python version in mageia is 2.7 !!!
> > 
> > if no python path is found configure may disable pylash building
> > 
> > You may look in the log and try to find :
> > build_pylash="disabled"
> > It may be disabled without warning !!! as it doesn't prevent from
> > building the other components
> > but when creating the rpm python-lash you have no file to put into it
> > 
> > Suppressing the line :
> > -%{python_sitelib}/*
> > in the spec file hides the symptom and provides an empty and useless rpm
> > 
> > That's my hypothesis but I'm not very able !
> > Maybe you may ask to an old packager !!!
> 
> Funda Wang is our silent guardian angel :
> He just fixed it (and we may see how he could in revision 155500)!
> 
> Thanks Funda

Thanks Funda. I will look it up just to learn how you did it.
-- 
Thomas