On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:52:53PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:19:22PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > > > It's academic now that you've installed gobject-introspection and > > pygobject-2.21.5 but perhaps the build would succeed if you compiled > > pygobject-2.20.0 before you install gobject-introspection-1.0? > > > > Andy > > -- > That seems a plausible hypothesis. I need introspection for > epiphany, so I build introspection as early as I can, so that all > the gnome/gtk packages can use it. First time I added it, I had to > rebuild atk, gtk+, and probably others. > > Pygobject is just a "nice to have for gnumeric", so I'm in no rush > to build it [ once I can build firefox (icecat, but essentially the > same thing ] the system is usable enough to search for answers on > any later problems. > Further update on this - with gobject-introspection-0.9.3, if I configure webkit-1.2.4 with --enable-introspection, make check fails. If I omit that switch (which will be ok for midori, but not for epiphany), make check succeeds. I'm guessing that development webkitgtk (latest is 1.3.3) will cope with the newer introspection, but this all reinforces my belief that Python-2.7 is, for the moment, too bleeding-edge for people using current gnome packages.
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