[gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Dan Armak]

Hi all,

During the last few days several problems were resolved. All who were unable 
to compile kdemultimedia or koffice should try again now.

kdemultimedia:
Added fix for alsa linking - registered on bugs.kde.org and will be in 2.2.2. 
Showed up on USE alsa.
Added <sys/errno.h> missing header. Showed up on USE motif. Not mentioned on 
bugs.kde.org. I'll probably submit a report there.
Merged these 2 patches and an existing patch from 2.2 into 1 diff file. 

koffice:
It has come to light that koffice requires a python built against tcl-tk. 
This is only done on gentoo if tcltk is in USE. This complements Achim's 
koffice-python patch in a way.
Someone should tell the kde devs - kabau? 

AFAIK, these were the only unresolved kde-base problems.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Dan Armak]

> Someone should tell the kde devs - kabau?
What I meant was, that what I know about the problem can be put in 2 lines, 
and what I know about the solution can be put in a 2-lins patch. It may be 
best for someone who knows all there is to know to write a bug report to the 
koffice devs.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Damon M. Conway]

>koffice:
>It has come to light that koffice requires a python built against tcl-tk.
>This is only done on gentoo if tcltk is in USE. This complements Achim's 
>koffice-python patch in a way.
>Someone should tell the kde devs - kabau? 

I can post a bug report to the KOffice team informing them that they need
to check python-config --libs for the proper libs.  I can also ask if they
really need those bits they are compiling against.  Is that what you are
referring to?

kabau

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"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
 would also stop you from doing clever things."  --Doug Gwyn

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Daniel Robbins]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:29:27PM -0500, Damon M. Conway wrote:

> I can post a bug report to the KOffice team informing them that they need
> to check python-config --libs for the proper libs.  I can also ask if they
> really need those bits they are compiling against.  Is that what you are
> referring to?

A quick note -- python-config is our creation, and is not an official part
of the python distribution.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Dan Armak]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure just what I was referring to.
I'm going to build a tcltk-less python and experiment. I've got some ideas. 
I'll tell you if there are any interesting results.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Damon M. Conway]

>I'm sorry, I'm not sure just what I was referring to.
>I'm going to build a tcltk-less python and experiment. I've got some ideas. 
>I'll tell you if there are any interesting results.

Excellent.  Let me know if I can help.

kabau

--
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
 would also stop you from doing clever things."  --Doug Gwyn

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Damon M. Conway]

>A quick note -- python-config is our creation, and is not an official part
>of the python distribution.

Ah, ok.  I'm not sure what I need to tell them about then.  We need to
figure out how we want to handle it in gentoo.

kabau

--
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
 would also stop you from doing clever things."  --Doug Gwyn

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Dan Armak]

Hi again,

There are interesting results allright. I removed tcltk from USE, remerged 
python, and koffice still builds successfully!

So, out diagnosis may be wrong. We need to discuss this.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:29:20 +0200
Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> There are interesting results allright. I removed tcltk from USE,
remerged 
> python, and koffice still builds successfully!
> 
> So, out diagnosis may be wrong. We need to discuss this.

I figured what the problem is in my and kabau's case. It is python-config
missing -lm in the list of libraries it requires. This causes koffice's
configure to fall back on defaults, which do not include -lreadline.

After remerging python-2.0-r4, it all works. One could also just append
-lm to the library list in the python-config script.

Cheers,

Karl T

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Damon M. Conway]

>There are interesting results allright. I removed tcltk from USE, remerged 
>python, and koffice still builds successfully!
>
>So, out diagnosis may be wrong. We need to discuss this.

Arrrrgh!

kabau

--
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
 would also stop you from doing clever things."  --Doug Gwyn

Re: [gentoo-dev] kdemultimedia & koffice problems resolved

[Dan Armak]

This is the python-2.0-r4 cvs log:
***
revision 1.7
date: 2001/10/06 15:04:00;  author: drobbins;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
added -lm
----------------------------
revision 1.6
date: 2001/08/31 03:23:38;  author: pm;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
sorry. fixed properl $Header: $ tag now.
----------------------------
revision 1.5
date: 2001/08/30 17:31:35;  author: pm;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
fixed the $Header$ tag.
----------------------------
revision 1.4
date: 2001/08/24 04:45:53;  author: drobbins;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
python, portage fixes
----------------------------
revision 1.3
date: 2001/07/22 17:37:32;  author: achim;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Fixed X11 lib path in python-config
----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 2001/07/07 18:48:26;  author: achim;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Added -lpython2.0 to python-config
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2001/07/07 17:30:13;  author: achim;  state: Exp;
New rev with additional tcltk support and a python-config script
***

Based on this and on karltk's -lm solution, and on the fact that remerging 
python-2.0-r4 with or without tcltk in USE allows koffice to build, I've 
unerstood that some versions of python-2.0-r4 around <=1.4 were problematic. 
So I've copied the latest python-2.0-r4 to an r5 ebuild and koffice now 
depends on that.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel