Re: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 23:57:24 Wojtek Dalêtka wrote:

> I would like to write my first post here just to inform you that I also
> had this problem with avahi and pygtk.
> Avahi failed to emerge and I had to remove pygtk from my use flags, than
> it compiled OK.
>
> I was just interested if removing "-pipe" from CFLAGS makes any
> difference, and I tried remove it and emerge avahi with pygtk, but it
> does not compile.
> For me it compiles only without pygtk and changing -pipe doesn't work at
> all. I checked this because I have 512M.
>
> I don't know why I might need avahi with pygtk...disabling pygtk use
> flag for avahi works fine and other packages compile well.

Are you running stable or testing?

avahi does not have a pygtk USE flag. In fact, there isn't one in portage at 
all:

~ $ euse -i pygtk
global use flags (searching: pygtk)
************************************************************
no matching entries found

local use flags (searching: pygtk)
************************************************************
no matching entries found

So whether you have it or not should make no difference at all.

The latest avahi ebuild contains this interesting snippet though:

"src_compile() {
...
        # We need to unset DISPLAY, else the configure script might have 
problems detecting the pygtk module
        unset DISPLAY

        econf \
"

I'm not really in a position to help you further as I don't have avahi (or any 
zeroconf packages) - mostly because the only place I ever use this notebook 
is on properly configured networks

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