Compile error on Debian Testing (lenny) amd64

[Panagiotis Karagiannis]

Hi,
My system is a Debian Testing amd64 distribution and is regularly updated. I use a very old gizmod (v2:3 2006) installed in /usr/local but lacks a lot of features I want. Now I am trying to install gizmod 3.4. I first tried to install the ubuntu amd64 binary packages
libgizmod3_3.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
gizmod_3.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
I installed the dependencies and then the 2 .debs.They install OK but when I try to run the program says:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GizmoDaemon v3.4 -=- (c) 2007, Tim Burrell <tim.burrell@gmail.com>
=---------=

/usr/bin/gizmod: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libboost_python-gcc41-1_34_1.so.1.34.1: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
and dies. Next step is to compile the source
gcc and g++ is 4.2.3

tar xjf gizmod-3.4.tar.bz2
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/gizmod-3.4 ../gizmod-3.4
make
..........
[ 88%] Building CXX object gizmod/CMakeFiles/gizmod.dir/GizmoDaemon.o
cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors
/home/pkar/gizmod-3.4/gizmod/GizmoDaemon.cpp: In member function ‘void GizmoDaemon::initPython()’:
/home/pkar/gizmod-3.4/gizmod/GizmoDaemon.cpp:1332: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
make[2]: *** [gizmod/CMakeFiles/gizmod.dir/GizmoDaemon.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [gizmod/CMakeFiles/gizmod.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

ok a small change in GizmoDaemon.cpp:1332
(Tim of cource is the right person to decide which is the right way to fix this particular problem)
instead of
PyImport_AppendInittab("GizmoDaemon", &initGizmoDaemon);
to
char a_var[]="GizmoDaemon";
PyImport_AppendInittab(a_var, &initGizmoDaemon);
Now the compiler is happy

[ 94%] Building CXX object gizmod/CMakeFiles/gizmod.dir/Main.o
Linking CXX executable gizmod
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.3/../../../../lib/libboost_python.so: undefined reference to `Py_InitModule4'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [gizmod/gizmod] Error 1
make[1]: *** [gizmod/CMakeFiles/gizmod.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

At this poind I am stuck
Any Ideas ? Thank you in advance

PS1. Sorry if this post is long
PS2. I consider gizmod to be an exellent program and a very importand one, when you want to watch movies TV and listen to music from your PC. The idea of a configuration file written in python is very smart ! So I wonder if there is a plan  to create debian packages for gizmod. If I can help to this direction I will be happy !

Panagiotis

[Panagiotis Karagiannis]

Hi again
after a lot of trial and error, I managed to solve my problems
1.
with gcc-4.1 and g++-4.1 compilers there is no need to touch the
PyImport_AppendInittab("GizmoDaemon", &initGizmoDaemon);
line
2.
I had python-2,5-dev and python-2.4-dev installed and cmake preffered python 2.5. There is an outstanding bug report in debian saying python-boost is not working with python-2.5. So i removed python-2.5-dev and now gizmod-3.4 compiles without a single warning ! (using python 2.4)

I did'nt try to run the program because I wanted to send this post first.
I believe is OK though,
Probably tomorrow I will try to create a debian-amd64 package if you'd like to include it in your repository

Thanks
Panagiotis