On Saturday 23 April 2011 17:35:44 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Alan.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:43:45AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:05 on Friday 22 April 2011, Alan
> > Mackenzie
> > 
> > did opine thusly:
> > > Hi, Gentoo.
> > > 
> > > In my attempt to 'emerge --update --deep xfce4-meta', one sole
> > > package is refusing to build, namely pygtk.
> > > 
> > > Its log file displays many (perhaps 100) error lines like:
> > >     Could not write method AtkObject.get_attributes: No ArgType for
> > > 
> > > AtkAttributeSet*
> > > 
> > > .  The command that caused all these errors was:
> > > 
> > > libtool: compile:  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> > > -I/usr/include/python2.6 -I/usr/include/python2.6 -pthread
> > > -I/usr/include/pygtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I./gtk
> > > -I/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -pthread
> > > -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> > > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -O2 -pipe -march=athlon64 -Wall
> > > -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c9x -MT pango_la-pangomodule.lo -MD -MP -MF
> > > .deps/pango_la-pangomodule.Tpo -c pangomodule.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
> > > .libs/pango_la-pangomodule.o
> > > 
> > > .  If anybody knows how to fix this, or a more appropriate place to
> > > ask for help, please tell me.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > This one might be tricky. Here's a tip: include version numbers of
> > packages that are giving trouble, and whether you run stable, testing
> > or (god forbid!) a mixture - this can be rather important in guiding
> > one to what to do next (a process mostly defined by instinct rather
> > than by say reason)
> 
> OK.  As a relative newbie, I only run "stable".  My system is giving me
> enough headaches as it is.
> 
> > The error looks like an API break between pygtk and whatever provides
> > AtkObject. That is part of the gtk accessibility toolkit, and the
> > relevant files come out of a package called atk.
> > 
> > My first guess is that pygtk and atk are now out of sync on your machine.
> > Try this:
> > 
> > emerge -av1 atk
> > emerge -av1 pygtk
> > 
> > Post back if that doesn't work.
> 
> Sadly, it didn't work.
> 
> > Another tip: search bugs.gentoo.org first before posting - oftentimes
> > the problem is already known and reported on. In this specific case
> > however, I didn't find anything.
> 
> OK.  I managed to get the problem fixed, basically by trying everything,
> though I don't really understand what I did.  This was my recipe:
> 
>     emerge --sync
>     emerge --update --deep --newuse xfce4-meta
> 
> , which updated libglade-2.6.4 and pygtk-2.22.0-r1 successfully.  So
> thanks!

What do you get when you run:

# eselect python list
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Regards,
Mick