Python bindings on Mac OS 10.9

[R. Victor Klassen]

Well, here’s what I found on the re-run:

[Rs-MacBook-Pro:~] victor% !jhb
jhbuild build
*** Checking out readline *** [1/56]
*** Skipping readline (package and dependencies not updated) *** [1/56]
*** Checking out libpng *** [2/56]
*** Skipping libpng (package and dependencies not updated) *** [2/56]
*** Checking out libjpeg *** [3/56]
*** Skipping libjpeg (package and dependencies not updated) *** [3/56]
*** Checking out libtiff *** [4/56]
*** Skipping libtiff (package and dependencies not updated) *** [4/56]
*** Checking out gettext-runtime *** [5/56]
*** Skipping gettext-runtime (package and dependencies not updated) *** [5/56]
*** Checking out libxml2 *** [6/56]
*** Skipping libxml2 (package and dependencies not updated) *** [6/56]
*** Checking out libxslt *** [7/56]
*** Skipping libxslt (package and dependencies not updated) *** [7/56]
*** Checking out gnome-doc-utils *** [8/56]
jhbuild build: failed to unpack /Users/victor/gtk/source/pkgs/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10.tar.xz

and scrolling back I found:
<lots before this, then…>
I: Deleting .la file: u'/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/_jhbuild/root-libxslt/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/lib/libexslt.la'
I: Deleting .la file: u'/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/_jhbuild/root-libxslt/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/lib/libxslt.la'
I: Moving temporary DESTDIR u'/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/_jhbuild/root-libxslt' into build prefix
I: Install complete: 129 files copied
*** Checking out gnome-doc-utils *** [8/56]
curl --continue-at - -L ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-doc-utils/0.20/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10.tar.xz -o /Users/victor/gtk/source/pkgs/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10.tar.xz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  514k  100  514k    0     0  17676      0  0:00:29  0:00:29 --:--:-- 42944
jhbuild build: failed to unpack /Users/victor/gtk/source/pkgs/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10.tar.xz

On Feb 5, 2014, at 7:16 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:28 PM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Next snag, part way through jhbuild build:
>> 
>> jhbuild build: failed to unpack /Users/victor/gtk/source/pkgs/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10.tar.xz
>> 
>> 
>> I tried manually unpacking it, which appeared to work fine, but there are several more packages in the same directory, which I assume aren’t yet unpacked, and would need to be.   After I manually unpacked gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10 I tried running jhbuild again, but it failed with the same error.
> 
> You assumed wrong. The sequence is download-upack-configure-build. pkgs contains all of the downloads, they're unpacked into the outer directory, i.e. gtk/source. That explains why unpacking it by hand didn't clear the error.
> 
> There should have been more error messages explaining *why* jhbuild failed to unpack the file. Please share them.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls