Bug 289028 – dev-python/gdl-python-2.19.1-r1.ebuild needs dev-libs/gdl with the 'gnome' USE flag

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description MT 2009-10-14 10:38:47 UTC]

installing dev-python/gdl-python I got this emerge message:

* If you want to build gdl-python you need to build dev-libs/gdl with
* the the 'gnome' USE flag.
* ERROR: dev-python/gdl-python-2.19.1 failed:                             
*   gdl must be built with USE='gnome'

the problem here is that the ebuild requires >=dev-libs/gdl-2.24.0 which in turn does NOT have the USE flag 'gnome', making impossible to install gdl-python.

Attached there is an ebuild patch that remove the restriction of the USE 'gnome', convert the ebuild to the EAPI2 format and add these enhancements:

- removed pkg_setup() as is useless;
- added USE 'static-libs' to correctly handle static *.a files;
- removal of useless *.la files;

Hope to be useful.
Mauro Toffanin

p.s: the patch files/gdl-python-2.19.1-gdlicons.patch MUST be stored inside gnome-python-extras-2.19.1-split.patch.gz and removed from the portage tree, but is something that I can not fix by the bugzilla.

[Comment 1 MT 2009-10-14 10:39:52 UTC]

Created attachment 207070 [details, diff]
gdl-python-2.19.1-r2.ebuild.patch

[Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp 2009-10-14 11:05:40 UTC]

NAK on static-libs and removal of *.la files. Just pass --disable-static always, perhaps even in gnome-python*.eclass

I don't understand how you got the error you paste here, because gdl-python built_with_use uses "--missing true", so when gdl-2.24.0 doesn't have IUSE=gnome, it should assume the functionality is there and be happy, iirc.
Though mrpouet is saying its configure might be checking for gdl-python pkgconfig package explicitly, which newer gdl probably doesn't provide

[Comment 3 MT 2009-10-14 11:18:45 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't understand how you got the error you paste here, because gdl-python
> built_with_use uses "--missing true", so when gdl-2.24.0 doesn't have
> IUSE=gnome, it should assume the functionality is there and be happy, iirc.
> Though mrpouet is saying its configure might be checking for gdl-python
> pkgconfig package explicitly, which newer gdl probably doesn't provide

the message come out using sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc45 and sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc46, if you need more info or some particular tests, just ask, i'm available to provide feedback.

[Comment 4 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-10-30 07:47:06 UTC]

removed the built_with_use call since it is indeed useless. Please reopen if it doesn't fix your problem.