[Mageia-dev] missing deps, lash rebuilt for texi2html

Sun Oct 16 17:19:54 CEST 2011

On Sunday, October 16, 2011 07:01:15 am Philippe DIDIER wrote:
+> Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
+> > Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
+> >> On Saturday, October 15, 2011 07:16:19 pm Philippe DIDIER wrote:
+> >>> Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
+> >>>> I just rebuilt lash. In order to get it built, I had to remove
+> >>>> -%{python_sitelib}/*
+> >>>> Can someone who uses it please test it?
+> >>> 
+> >>> In the previous build (march)
+> >>> python-lash rpm was created
+> >>> it could install a directory
+> >>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
+> >>> wich contained 4 files
+> >>> 
+> >>>   _lash.a
+> >>>   _lash.la
+> >>>   _lash.so
+> >>>   lash.py
+> >>> 
+> >>> You said you had to remove -%{python_sitelib}/* in the spec file
+> >>> because there was nothing there (so your python-lash rpm seems to be
+> >>> empty !)
+> >>> If nothing was created in the buildroot (and no file found to be
+> >>> packaged) it's perhaps a problem of config : if python was not found
+> >>> (configure.ac seems to look for a path to PYTHON 2.3 !!! ) this these 4
+> >>> files were not created and there's indeed nothing to install...
+> >>> 
+> >>> Perhaps a problem with the update of python since july ?
+> >>> 
+> >>> Did you get an error message complaining about a missing optional
+> >>> dependency (even if that doesn't prevent to "make" what is not optional
+> >>> 
+> >>> : configure seems to allow to make without creating python-lash)
+> >> 
+> >> No, I didn't see any error messages.
+> > 
+> > It really looks as if the python path was not found ... (configure looks
+> > for python path with this list : python2 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3
+> > python2.2 python2.1 python2.0 python1.6 python1.5)
+> > The python version in mageia is 2.7 !!!
+> > 
+> > if no python path is found configure may disable pylash building
+> > 
+> > You may look in the log and try to find :
+> > build_pylash="disabled"
+> > It may be disabled without warning !!! as it doesn't prevent from
+> > building the other components
+> > but when creating the rpm python-lash you have no file to put into it
+> > 
+> > Suppressing the line :
+> > -%{python_sitelib}/*
+> > in the spec file hides the symptom and provides an empty and useless rpm
+> > 
+> > That's my hypothesis but I'm not very able !
+> > Maybe you may ask to an old packager !!!
+> 
+> Funda Wang is our silent guardian angel :
+> He just fixed it (and we may see how he could in revision 155500)!
+> 
+> Thanks Funda
+
+Thanks Funda. I will look it up just to learn how you did it.
+-- 
+Thomas
+