jhbuild error on Mac OSX Lion

[John Ralls]

On Jan 4, 2012, at 12:59 AM, reubano wrote:

> I can't get jhbuild to work for me. I followed the instructions at
> http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/OSX/Building#Procedure but using Xcode 4.2. I
> made a new user and ran 
> 
>   sh gtk-osx-build-setup.sh
> 
> However, when I ran 
> 
>   jhbuild build python
> 
> I got the following:
> 
> *** Configuring python *** [1/1]
> ./configure --prefix /Users/admin/gnucash-stable --libdir
> '/Users/admin/gnucash-stable/lib' --enable-shared  
> checking for --enable-universalsdk... no
> checking for --with-universal-archs... 32-bit
> checking MACHDEP... darwin
> checking EXTRAPLATDIR... $(PLATMACDIRS)
> checking machine type as reported by uname -m... x86_64
> checking for --without-gcc... no
> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/Users/admin/gtk/source/Python-2.7.2':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
> *** Error during phase configure of python: ########## Error running
> ./configure --prefix /Users/admin/gnucash-stable --libdir
> '/Users/admin/gnucash-stable/lib' --enable-shared   *** [1/1]
> 
> [1] Rerun phase configure
> [2] Ignore error and continue to build
> [3] Give up on module
> [4] Start shell
> [5] Reload configuration
> [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
> [7] Go to phase "clean"
> [8] Go to phase "distclean"
> choice: 
> 
> And the same errors occurred when I tried to run 
> 
>   jhbuild bootstrap
> 
> I also tried copying
> http://github.com/jralls/gnucash-on-osx/raw/master/.jhbuildrc-custom into
> ~/.jhbuildrc-custom to see if it made a difference and it did not help. 
> 

What does config.log say is the error from the C compiler?
If you tried to build Python before running jhbuild bootstrap, you didn't follow the instructions very carefully...

Regards,
John Ralls