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Date:      Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:51:16 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        ali <aafshar@gmail.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vte widget port and Python extensions
Message-ID:  <1125287476.1079.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1125144872l.5442l.7l@hari>
References:  <1125144872l.5442l.7l@hari>

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On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 12:14 +0000, ali wrote:
> Hi,
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> Thank-you for maintaining this port. I recently had a slight problem =20
> installing the Python extensions.
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> I set the --enable-python configure argument in the Makefile, and made =20
> the port and installed it. Unfortunately the Python extension cannot be =20
> used because Python can't find the library.
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> The Python extension was installed to:
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> /usr/X11R6/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/vtemodule.so
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> where the other GTK2 C Python extensions are installed to:
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> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/
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> and moving the file to that location allows Python to find it.
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> (I guess there may be a reason to put this in the /usr/X11R6 tree =20
> instead of the /usr/local tree.)
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> I would love to fix this and send you a patch but I am very =20
> inexperienced with ports and BSD, I shall do anything I can to help =20
> though.

In order for the extensions to work, the port will need to be hacked to
install the Python bits under LOCALBASE (much the way net/gaim installs
its Perl bits).  You could probably use gaim as sort of a model.

Joe

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