Python bindings on Mac OS 10.9

[R. Victor Klassen]

So I tried MacPorts first, but it failed miserably part way through the install process.   Perhaps it hasn’t been tested on 10.9.

At that point I removed all traces of MacPorts from my dot files, and switched to the jhbuild approach.

That (eventually) worked, to the point that jhbuild is installed, and got through the bootstrap.  Weak rural connectivity would likely have been part of the issue.

Anyhow this morning I observed that jhbuild bootstrap had completed and I tried jhbuild build.

It went a little way and then complained that:

jhbuild build: failed to parse /Users/john/Development/GTK-OSX/gtk-osx-build/modulesets-stable/gtk-osx.modules: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/Users/john/Development/GTK-OSX/gtk-osx-build/modulesets-stable/gtk-osx.modules’

I dug a little deeper and found 
  <include href="/Users/john/Development/GTK-OSX/gtk-osx-build/modulesets-stable/gtk-osx.modules"/>
in
./.cache/jhbuild/gnucash.modules

While it is more or less clear what the problem is, I’m not sure what to change the path to.

On Feb 1, 2014, at 3:03 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 1, 2014, at 11:56 AM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I’d like to export all transactions from last year to a spreadsheet.  Thus far, when I’ve tried to export a transaction report, the .html file it produces either completely or mostly hangs OpenOffice, and I haven’t been able to copy-paste it into Calc from the word processor that opens it by default.
>> 
>> So I thought I’d give python bindings a try - to see if I could just export all the transactions to a .csv format.
>> 
>> As far as I understand, python bindings requires compiling the source, right?
>> 
>> When I try to do that I wind up going down a series of rabbit holes looking for one library after another.  First I needed intltool.  Then I needed gettext.  Then I needed to find glib.  And in order to even install glib I needed libffi.  
>> 
>> Surely it can’t be this hard.  Am I doing something wrong?  
> 
> Yup.
> 
> You have two choices: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz or http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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