[oe] Fwd: Pytgtk2: follow up

[Nicolas FR]

As suggested by Mickey, this might be of public interest.

Basically I asked Mickey for help to make a receipe for
python-pygtk2_2.10.0 which adds support for the gtk.StatusIcon class
which 'should' allow to use statusicon in panels which follow the
freedesktop.org directives (hint: matchbox!).

python-pygtk2_2.10.0 currently in OE, compiles fine but after
installing it and trying in python to "import gtk", it would complain
about missing pangocairo module.

After checking in log_do_configure I noticed that indeed that
pangocairo was not found. After some research, I realised the
pycairo.pc was missing from
staging/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/share/pkgconfig

Now I know that pkconfig is used to install .pc files
(http://www.openembedded.org/user-manual&dpage=ch07s07), so basically
python-pycairo should just inherit pkgconfig to solve the problem?

Is that it Mickey?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
Date: Oct 18, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Pytgtk2: follow up
To: Nicolas FR <nicolasfr at gmail.com>


> I finally made some progress to compile Pygtk2 with pangocairo
> support. I made a simple recipe for pycairo-native but the problem is
> that pycairo.pc is not installed in
> "/opt/OE/build/tmp/staging/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/share/pkgconfig".
> Copying the file manually there solves the problem.
>
> Of course I can add a rule in the do_staging to copy the file, but I'd
> like to understand why the *.pc files do get copied for other packages
> (pygobject for example) and not for pycairo? Any idea?

Seems like pycairo.bb doesn't inherit pkgconfig.

> Here is the .bb I made for python-pycairo-native_1.2.2.bb:
>
> ----------
> require python-pycairo_${PV}.bb
>
> DEPENDS = "python-native"
>
> do_stage() {
>         BUILD_SYS=${BUILD_SYS} HOST_SYS=${HOST_SYS} \
>         ${STAGING_BINDIR}/python setup.py install
> --prefix=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/.. --install-data=${STAGING_DATADIR} || \
>         oefatal "python setup.py install execution failed."
> }

Why would we need pycairo-native in addition to pycairo?

Btw., I think these things are of public interest, we better switch to
using openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org

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Regards,

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer | FreeLancer | http://www.Vanille-Media.de