Hi, Alan. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:43:45AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:05 on Friday 22 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie > did opine thusly:
> > Hi, Gentoo. > > In my attempt to 'emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta', one sole > > package is refusing to build, namely pygtk. > > Its log file displays many (perhaps 100) error lines like: > > Could not write method AtkObject.get_attributes: No ArgType for > > AtkAttributeSet* > > . The command that caused all these errors was: > > libtool: compile: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. > > -I/usr/include/python2.6 -I/usr/include/python2.6 -pthread > > -I/usr/include/pygtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I./gtk > > -I/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -pthread > > -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -O2 -pipe -march=athlon64 -Wall > > -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c9x -MT pango_la-pangomodule.lo -MD -MP -MF > > .deps/pango_la-pangomodule.Tpo -c pangomodule.c -fPIC -DPIC -o > > .libs/pango_la-pangomodule.o > > . If anybody knows how to fix this, or a more appropriate place to > > ask for help, please tell me. > > Thanks in advance! > This one might be tricky. Here's a tip: include version numbers of > packages that are giving trouble, and whether you run stable, testing > or (god forbid!) a mixture - this can be rather important in guiding > one to what to do next (a process mostly defined by instinct rather > than by say reason) OK. As a relative newbie, I only run "stable". My system is giving me enough headaches as it is. > The error looks like an API break between pygtk and whatever provides > AtkObject. That is part of the gtk accessibility toolkit, and the relevant > files come out of a package called atk. > My first guess is that pygtk and atk are now out of sync on your machine. Try > this: > emerge -av1 atk > emerge -av1 pygtk > Post back if that doesn't work. Sadly, it didn't work. > Another tip: search bugs.gentoo.org first before posting - oftentimes > the problem is already known and reported on. In this specific case > however, I didn't find anything. OK. I managed to get the problem fixed, basically by trying everything, though I don't really understand what I did. This was my recipe: emerge --sync emerge --update --deep --newuse xfce4-meta , which updated libglade-2.6.4 and pygtk-2.22.0-r1 successfully. So thanks! > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).