Bug 681564 – dev-python/pyenchant-2.0.0 with app-text/enchant-2.2.3 - src_compile(): ImportError: The 'enchant' C library was not found.

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jack 2019-03-23 18:02:01 UTC]

pyenchant-2.0.0 built for me with enchant-2.1.2, so this might be due to the change of library name to enchant-2 (just guessing).  Seems similar to bug 676920, bug 676918, and others.  I have not added this to the general tracker for packages not compiling with enchant2 (bug 629838).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge app-text/enchant=2.2.3
2.Emerge dev-python/pyenchant-2.0.0

Actual Results:  
>>> Compiling source in /usr/portage/tmpdir/portage/dev-python/pyenchant-2.0.0/work/pyenchant-2.0.0 ...
 * python3_6: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile
python3.6 setup.py build -j 3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 212, in <module>
    import enchant
  File "/usr/portage/tmpdir/portage/dev-python/pyenchant-2.0.0/work/pyenchant-2.0.0/enchant/__init__.py", line 92, in <module>
    from enchant import _enchant as _e
  File "/usr/portage/tmpdir/portage/dev-python/pyenchant-2.0.0/work/pyenchant-2.0.0/enchant/_enchant.py", line 145, in <module>
    raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: The 'enchant' C library was not found. Please install it via your OS package manager, or use a pre-built binary wheel from PyPI.
(let me know if full build log is necessary)

Expected Results:  
successful emerge

I'm no python expert, but it appears this requires a change to the site-packages/enchant for each python version.

[Comment 1 Jack 2019-03-23 18:42:25 UTC]

Turns out the patch is much simpler than I expected - just add the line
yield find_library("enchant-2") right after yield find_library("enchant") in enchant/_enchant.py.  The URL I added is for the PR to pyenchant, and it can be followed to the patch itself - just the one line addition.

[Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp 2020-02-02 19:48:25 UTC]

I've updated the existing versions to require enchant:0, with which it works.
Once there is a pyenchant that can use enchant-2 instead, it should really check for that first, and the dep should be enchant:2 then, as we want to get rid of enchant:0 as soon as possible.

[Comment 3 Jack 2020-10-22 18:34:58 UTC]

I no longer use pyenchangt, but I wonder if this has been resolved with upgrades to pyenchant (currently 3.1.0) and enchant (1.6.1-r1:0 and 2.2.8:2).  In the pyenchant ebuild, I see "RDEPEND="app-text/enchant:*"".

[Comment 4 Jack 2023-02-13 22:12:37 UTC]

I still don't use pyenchant, but tried installing recently and had no errors, so perhaps this can be closed?  Fixed probably, else Unmaintained?  pyenchant is now 3.2.2-r1.

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2023-02-14 05:08:38 UTC]

Thanks for pinging us.