jhbuild error on Mac OSX Lion

[John Ralls]

On Jan 11, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Reuben Cummings wrote:

>>> One question though, the first time I ran
>>> 
>>> jhbuild bootstrap
>>> 
>>> and then I realized it should be
>>> 
>>> jhbuild bootstrap --skip=libiconv
>>> 
>>> Is it sufficient to just rerun it with the extra argument?
>>> 
>> Unfortunately, no. You have to uninstall libiconv, with
>> jhbuild --moduleset=~/Source/jhbuild/modulesets/bootstrap.modules uninstall libiconv
>> It should be enough, but if you get link errors at runtime you'll have to rebuild everything to get the rpaths right.
>> 
>> My "clean Lion" (on a Dev Preview VM with no older stuff from earlier versions hanging around) build yesterday got to guile, which segfaulted during its install phase. I was focussing on getting the release done and didn't dig into it. Did your build get through that?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> guile built fine but I ran into the following problems
> 
> *** Checking out icon-naming-utils *** [55/68]
> bunzip2 -dc "/Users/admin/gtk/source/pkgs/icon-naming-utils-0.8.90.tar.bz2"
> | tar xf -
> bunzip2: /Users/admin/gtk/source/pkgs/icon-naming-utils-0.8.90.tar.bz2
> is not a bzip2 file.
> *** Error during phase checkout of icon-naming-utils: could not unpack
> tarball (expected icon-naming-utils-0.8.90 dir) *** [55/68]
> 
> ...
> 
> checking for LIBSOUP... configure: error: Package requirements
> (libsoup-2.4 >= 2.27.91) were not met:
> 
> No package 'libsoup-2.4' found
> 
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBSOUP_CFLAGS
> and LIBSOUP_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> *** Error during phase configure of WebKit: ########## Error running
> ./configure --prefix /Users/admin/gnucash-stable --libdir
> '/Users/admin/gnucash-stable/lib' --with-target=quartz --disable-video
> --with-font-backend=pango   *** [60/68]
> 
> ...
> 
> *** Checking out iso-codes *** [67/68]
> bunzip2 -dc "/Users/admin/gtk/source/pkgs/iso-codes_3.28.orig.tar.bz2"
> | tar xf -
> bunzip2: /Users/admin/gtk/source/pkgs/iso-codes_3.28.orig.tar.bz2 is
> not a bzip2 file.
> jhbuild build: failed to unpack
> /Users/admin/gtk/source/pkgs/iso-codes_3.28.orig.tar.bz2

The Libsoup dependency in WebKit I know about. iso-codes and icon-naming-utils sound like either a changed filename at the source. They're probably html error files; try reading them with less to see what is the actual error.

Regards,
John Ralls