I'm just flagging this up here, in the hope that somebody can help
me understand what the hell changed.
I'm doing a fresh build of svn on one of my test machines - I've
built this same version of gimp-help several times this year, last
time used packages from late May including Python-2.7.13 which is
what I've got on this build.
Today it decided to fail:
make[1]: Entering directory
'/scratch/working/gimp-help-2.8.2/quickreference'
/bin/mkdir -p xml
../tools/xml2po.py -p po/de.po ./gimp-keys.xml >
xml/gimp-keys-de.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../tools/xml2po.py", line 190, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "../tools/xml2po.py", line 87, in main
from xml2po import Main
File "/scratch/working/gimp-help-2.8.2/tools/xml2po/__init__.py",
line 27, in <module>
import libxml2
ImportError: No module named libxml2
and sure enough in the gimp-help-2.8.2/tools/xml2po/__init__.py file
the first things after the License are a string of imports:
import os
import sys
import re
import subprocess
import tempfile
import gettext
import libxml2
so on the face of it, it has always needed to import libxml2.py.
But in my log from the previous build it sailed through:
make[1]: Entering directory
'/scratch/working/gimp-help-2.8.2/quickreference'
/bin/mkdir -p xml
../tools/xml2po.py -p po/fr.po ./gimp-keys.xml > xml/gimp-keys-fr.xml
The order in which it processes the languages there seems to be
random (make -j4), but in the current system the error was repeated for
several including fr.
On a whim I tried using MAKEFLAGS of -j1, but all that did was make
it stop after the first such error (for 'ca' this time).
AFAICS, I've never had the python libxml2 module installed when I've
built gimp-help before, although on the occasions when I've later
installed asymptote I've rebuilt Python so that I can get
_tkinter.so and I see that those installs did give me libxml2.py.
As is usual with Python, I'm baffled. Can anybody offer any
theories for why this has suddenly failed, please ? Or, perhaps
more accurately, why it didn't fail in the past ?
I note from the libxml2 instructions that Python is recommended so
that libxml2 will build and install a Python library module, but a
quick look at recent logs only shows libxml2-python documentation,
not a module.
I suspect I'm going to have to rebuild Python2 after libxml2 has been
installed to now get gimp-help to build.
TIA
ĸen
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