Re: [Plplot-devel] The PLplot build on my new computer and 5.8.0 release implications

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:11:26PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-11-11 22:18-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> >
> > Alan,
> >
> > I don't see these with the latest stable Ubuntu. The latest debian
> > packages have now made it into unstable.
> >
> > To run ctest with the tcl bindings required setting ITCL_LIBRARY (see
> > debian/rules for details). Rafael discovered this, but we don't yet
> > know why.
> 
> I will look into that also.
> 
> >
> > The java packages build ok in the debian packages so you might like to
> > check which java you are using. We're building with kaffe.
> 
> I am trying the free-java-sdk package.  Perhaps there is some Debian
> bug with it.

Actually, I've just seen the build logs today and there are java
problems on some architectures too so you may not be alone. 

> What I have been focussing on at the moment, is the necessity of having to
> specify -DENABLE_pygcw=OFF with Debian testing.  Otherwise, I get the
> following error.
> 
> [ 21%] Generating cplplotcanvas.c
> cd /home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/build_dir/bindings/gnome2/python && pygtk-code
> gen-2.0 --prefix cplplotcanvas --register /usr/share/pygtk/2.0/defs/gdk.defs --register /usr/share/pygtk/2.0/defs/gtk.defs --register /usr/share/pygtk/2.0/defs/gnome.defs --register /usr/share/pygtk/2.0/defs/canvas.defs --override /home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/plplot_cmake/bindings/gnome2/python/cplplotcanvas.override /home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/build_dir/bindings/gnome2/python/plplotcanvas.defs > /home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/build_dir/bindings/gnome2/python/cplplotcanvas.c
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/codegen.py", line 1712, in ?
>      sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/codegen.py", line 1670, in main
>      p.startParsing()
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/scmexpr.py", line 114, in startParsing
>      self.handle(statement)
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/scmexpr.py", line 118, in handle
>      getattr(self, cmd)(*tup[1:])
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/defsparser.py", line 29, in include
>      self.startParsing()
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/scmexpr.py", line 114, in startParsing
>      self.handle(statement)
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/scmexpr.py", line 118, in handle
>      getattr(self, cmd)(*tup[1:])
>    File "/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/codegen/defsparser.py", line 33, in include
>      raise IOError("%s not found in include path %s" % (input_filename, inc_path))
> IOError: gtk-extrafuncs.defs not found in include path ['/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/defs', '.']
> make[2]: *** [bindings/gnome2/python/cplplotcanvas.c] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/software/plplot_cvs/HEAD/build_dir'
> make[1]: *** [bindings/gnome2/python/CMakeFiles/cplplotcanvasmodule.dir/all] Error 2
> 

> This is on debian testing which has no file named gtk-extrafuncs.defs.  I
> suspect there is some upstream error with python-gtk2.  There is mention of
> this bug being fixed in ubuntu, but nothing about it upstream or in
> debian.

Alan, this has been a long running problem on Ubuntu as well as I
recall. I had forgotten that I just created this file as a blank file
and everything worked ok.
 
> BTW, in Debian unstable there is a file called gtk-extrafuncs.defs, but it
> is in quite a different package, and may be some local fixup for that
> package for the python-gtk2 packaging bug.  Anyhow, Andrew, I am not quite
> sure whether to submit a Debian bug report for python-gtk2 or not and would
> appreciate your advice on this.

I will look into this further.

Andrew