On Sep 4, 2007, at 06:17, Susan Mackay wrote:
I'm fairly new to Macports so please forgive me if this is an 'dumb'
question.
I am trying to build gtk-sharp, which uses avahi which, in turn, uses
py-gdbm. For various reasons, I have both python2.4 and python2.5
installed
(both installed as dependencies for other packages - I have no
knowledge of
python and have not installed either from 'choice').
When configuring avahi, it could not find py-gdbm although the 'ports
installed' command listed it as active.
It turns out that the python 'sys.path' command includes all of the
pythin2.5 directories, but the py-gdbm package installs into the
python2.4
directories.
I have subsequently changed the avahi dependency from 'py-gdbm' to
'py25-gdbm' and it has installed correctly. However I don't think
that this
should be the sort of thing that I should be 'playing' with.
What is the correct process that I should be using to handle this
situation?
It would appear that the python packages are tied to a specific
version and
are not generic. Is this right?
Yes, that's right. A python port either uses python2.4 or it uses
python2.5. If a python port could work with either, then two ports
should be created. The one with the py- prefix is for python2.4 and
the one with the py25- prefix is for python2.5. Then there are other
ports like avahi which are not in the python category and don't have
a py- or py25- prefix. These use either python2.4 or python2.5 as
decided by the port author. I don't use any python software so I
don't know the implications of changing the avahi dependency from py-
gdbm to py25-gdbm. Perhaps the port author could comment. I'm Cc'ing
him.
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