All supportted versions of gcompris (6.5.3, 7.2 & 7.4) have python turned off. There was some bugs related to seg faulting if python was enabled and as it does run without python that was the solution. However a very large number of games within gcompris don't work without python (that is they do not even show up as choices to run if python was not found at compile time). I created my own ebuild that does work with python enabled for both X86 (linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6) and AMD64 (linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r2). I tested this for 7.2, 7.3.2 & 7.4. I am new at writing ebuilds so it likely does not follow coding standards - but here it is: # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: .../games-kids/gcompris/gcompris-7.4.ebuild,v 1.0 inherit eutils games DESCRIPTION="full featured educational application for children from 2 to 10" HOMEPAGE="http://gcompris.net" SRC_URI="http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gcompris/${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="amd64 x86" IUSE="python gnome" RDEPEND="|| ( x11-libs/libXrandr virtual/x11 ) >=dev-libs/glib-2.0 =x11-libs/gtk+-2* >=gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.0.2 media-libs/sdl-mixer media-libs/libsdl dev-libs/libxml2 dev-libs/popt dev-libs/libassetml >dev-python/gnome-python-2.0 >=dev-python/pygtk-2.0 dev-python/pyxml >=dev-python/pysqlite-2.0 sci-electronics/gnucap >=dev-lang/python-2.4 media-gfx/tuxpaint" DEPEND="${RDEPEND} sys-apps/texinfo app-text/texi2html || ( x11-libs/libXt virtual/x11 )" RDEPEND="${RDEPEND} games-board/gnuchess" src_unpack() { unpack ${A} cd "${S}" sed -i \ -e '/^install-data-am/s/install-libgcomprisincludeHEADERS//' \ src/gcompris/Makefile.in \ || die "sed failed" } src_compile() { export GNUCHESS="${GAMES_BINDIR}/gnuchess" econf \ || die emake -j1 || die "emake failed" } src_install() { make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "make install failed" dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README THANKS TODO prepgamesdirs }
gack... don't put ebuilds in comments. that's what attachments are for. please reattach as text/plain. thanks.
Created attachment 85086 [details] ebuild for gcompris 7.4 Sorry, ebuild attached
It doesn't emerge for me, during configure it says: " ... checking for python module gtk... yes checking for python module gnome.canvas... no configure: error: *** pygtk installed but not visible from python"
I did an e-mail reply, but appears that does not work. Try replacing ">=dev-python/pygtk-2.0" with "dev-python/pygtk" to insure you get the newest version of pygtk.
I like the idea of enabling the python stuff in gcompris, but your ebuild makes it mandatory. It needs to use the $(use_enable python) and $(use_enable sqlite) that you removed from the ebuild that's in portage to make it optional for people who don't want to have the additional dependencies. Care to attach a fixed up ebuild?
Created attachment 93457 [details] Better ebuild Attached is a version that allows for a "-python" USE (either in the /etc/make.conf or the /etc/portage/package.use files). I could not find any other way to do this.... Also based on a previous post the line "python? ( >=dev-lang/python-2.4 )" may need to be "python? ( dev-lang/python )" instead
I removed the dependency on gnucap and tuxpaint. Game is enough skilled to get them runtime, if asked. Well, new ebuild is in portage. Thanks for your work.
In response to comment #3: "checking for python module gnome.canvas... no configure: error: *** pygtk installed but not visible from python" import gnome.canvas fails silently with gnome-python-2.12.4 and pygtk-2.8.6 if the connection to an X server fails. Workaround is to emerge with DISPLAY set appropriately, and with FEATURES=-userpriv. (Or maybe try pygtk-2.8.2 and/or gnome-python-2.12.1.)
(In reply to comment #8) > In response to comment #3: > Workaround is to emerge with DISPLAY set appropriately, > and with FEATURES=-userpriv. Elaborating your idea I realized that instead of using FEATURES=-userpriv I had to allow remote connections to my xserver with 'xhost +'.
