GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 142032
Error on "./configure --with-python"
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
With everything in place, I get: ======================================================================== ernie@atari:~/temp/dia-0.93$ ./configure --with-python checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... i686-pc-linux checking host system type... i686-pc-linux checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... g77 checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc static flag works... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for library containing opendir... none required checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking stddef.h usability... yes checking stddef.h presence... yes checking for stddef.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking utime.h usability... yes checking utime.h presence... yes checking for utime.h... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for select... yes checking for strcspn... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strtol... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for intltool >= 0.21... 0.27.2 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.2.3) checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.2.4) checking for pango >= 1.1.5... yes checking PANGOVERSION_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include checking PANGOVERSION_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 checking for pangoft2... yes checking PANGOFT2_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include checking PANGOFT2_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 checking for FT_Init_FreeType in -lfreetype... yes checking if FreeType version is 2.0.9 or higher... yes checking for libart-2.0... yes checking LIBART_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 checking LIBART_LIBS... -lart_lgpl_2 checking whether GNOME specific code should be used... no checking for gtk+-2.0 libxml-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 pangoft2 libart-2.0... yes checking GTK_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 checking GTK_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lart_lgpl_2 checking for libxslt... yes checking XSLT_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/libxml2 checking XSLT_LIBS... -lxslt -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lm checking for poptSetOtherOptionHelp in -lpopt... yes checking popt.h usability... yes checking popt.h presence... yes checking for popt.h... yes checking png.h usability... yes checking png.h presence... yes checking for png.h... yes checking for png_read_info in -lpng... yes checking for png_structp in png.h... yes checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes checking libintl.h usability... yes checking libintl.h presence... yes checking for libintl.h... yes checking for dgettext in libc... yes checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for catalogs to be installed... am az be ca cs da de el en_CA en_GB es fi fr ga hr hu is it ja ko mk mn ml ms nl nn no pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sl sq sr sr@Latn sv tr uk vi zh_CN zh_TW checking for xml2-config... xml2-config checking for libxml >= 2.3.9... found checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking for gzread in -lz... yes checking math.h usability... yes checking math.h presence... yes checking for math.h... yes checking for isinf in -lm... yes checking if C compiler accepts -Wall... yes checking if C compiler accepts -Wunused... yes checking if C compiler accepts -Wmissing-prototypes... yes checking if C compiler accepts -Wmissing-declarations... yes checking if C compiler accepts -finline-functions... yes checking if C compiler accepts -fstrict-aliasing... yes checking for db2html... /usr/bin/db2html checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking if Python version >= 1.5.2... okay checking local Python configuration... checking for script directory... NONE/lib/python2.3/site-packages checking for extension module directory... NONE/lib/python2.3/site-packages looks good checking for python module gtk... yes checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found checking for libpython2.3.a... not found ernie@atari:~/temp/dia-0.93$ ======================================================================== This worked with 0.92.2. I'm using Debian unstable. Note the 4 lines before "looks good": Each of them doesn't look good. Either they print a "NONE" where something else should be, or something is just missing (two spaces, respectively).
It seems that this can be worked around with ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr although this should default to PREFIX. A similar issue is the fact that "make install" doesn't accept just "prefix=..." but I also need to specify "exec_prefix=...".
I identified a possible cause for this problem and posted to the mailing list. The archived copy if at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2004-May/msg00023.html
*** Bug 141575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The above mention workaround breaks with --prefix=/opt; the patch appears to do the right thing - but in the wrong file (configure is generated from configure.in). So I checked in the following change - not claiming it to be correct - but works for me (tm) : 2004-05-20 Hans Breuer <hans@breuer.org> * acinclude.m4 : disable setting of PYTHON_PREFIX and PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX from prefix and exec_prefix as workaround for bug #142032 (the real fix would involve some auto* knowledge which I don't have either;)
What patch is that, Hans? Anyway, I just wanted to report that --with-python still doesn't work for me (using the 2004-05-21 CVS snapshot). The configure output is slightly different now (no more "NONE" entries): checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking if Python version >= 1.5.2... okay checking local Python configuration... checking for script directory... lib/python2.3/site-packages checking for extension module directory... lib/python2.3/site-packages looks good checking for python module gtk... yes checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found checking for libpython2.3.a... not found configure: error: could not find files required to build python plugin Do I need to do anythign special when building from a snapshot?
Created attachment 27923 [details] output of autogen.sh from 2004-05-21 CVS snapshot
Just commited another try : 2004-05-23 Hans Breuer <hans@breuer.org> * acinclude.m4 : another attempt to fix bug #142032 (still not sure it's the right one, but works for me(tm), which the other does not ;)
Thanks, Hans. I just tried the 2004-05-25 CVS snapshot and configure --with-python works fine for me too :-)
Yeah! Closing as fixed ;-)