Re: [BitPim-user] Motorola v710 (Verizon) Exception

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

>  Among other things, such a source rpm package
> would have at least in theory shown me the proper build process and I'd
> plan on using the package later for my fiancée (x86_64 arch).

There is no build process.  Python is an interpretted language.

What we distribute is a self-contained bundle of a Python
interpretter, shared libraries and the BitPim bytecode.  (The
latter is an optimisation - the .py files would work just the
same).

The ordinary x86 "binary" will work fine on x86_64.  There is zero
additional benefit to making an x86_64 version.

> As well,
> I tend to build on one host and install on several (I customize my
> distro installer to include my own repository for additional packages),
> so eventually avoiding the devel environment would be worth it to me
> long-term.

You'll end up needing to make RPMs for all the dependencies.  The people
who have added BitPim to the Gentoo and Debian repositories have
done that.

> Sometime in the future, I might supply a SPEC file

Here is the one used today:

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/bitpim/trunk/bitpim/packaging/bitpim.spec?view=markup

> that would actually do the entire build,

There isn't anything to build, unless you want to fold all the
dependencies into a single "binary" package.

> temporarily stuck with this error and don't know which package I need
> installed.

Go back to the developer page.  Look at the wxPython section.  Note
the text in bold.

Roger