Re: [gentoo-user] Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

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!

> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).