On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:53:45 +0000
Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 01:33:15AM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote:
> > Hello Ken,
> > Thanks for updating the gimp, it was on my todo list but I wanted to
> > update webkit first as the gimp uses it to view the help files. At
> > least, it does for me, however, I don't see webkit mentioned on the
> > gimp page as an optional dependency? Should I add it to the gimp page
> > when I've updated webkit (in a couple of days)
> 
>  I think I put it in a comment in the xls, but I'm *surprised*
> yours uses webkit - mine opens aurora (i.e. firefox).  Anyway, it
> tests for webkit-1.0.pc - in my experience that comes from old (<1.6)
> versions of webkit-gtk built with gtk+-2.  But I think you told me
> 1.6 could be built with gtk+-2 so perhaps it installs a different
> version of hte pkgconfig file in that case ?
> 
>  My build of 1.6.1 with gtk+-3 installed webkit-3.0.pc.
> 
>  I build the gimp long before I touch the gnome applications, but
> even after webkit-gtk has been installed, the log from the gimp's
> configure shows -
> 
> checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
> checking for WEBKIT... no
> checking for SVG... yes
> 
>  PS - since I'm talking about the gimp now - PyGTK appears to be
> broken, probably by glib-2.30.  pygobject-2.28.6 crapped out with
> 
> pygi-info.c: In function '_pygi_info_new':
> pygi-info.c:165:14: error: 'GI_INFO_TYPE_ERROR_DOMAIN' undeclared
> (first use in this function)
> 
> pygobject-3.0.2 is fine, but it installs pygobject-3.0.pc -
> pygtk-2.24.0 is looking for pygobject-2.0.pc.  3.0.2 is in Wayne's
> gnome3 packages, I assume it gets used by something.
> 
>  At the time pygtk failed on me, I couldn't get to fedora gitweb to
> see what they do.  I checked PLD, but they don't install pygtk (nor
> do they make check - there is much to be said for that attitude ;-).
> I've since proved that I don't need pygtk for what I do in gnumeric,
> so it doesn't bother me but I did get reminded by the (my?)
> explanation on the --disable-python switch.
> 
> ĸen
> -- 
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