On 12/14/2012 01:00 AM, Kerrick Staley wrote: > Quite a lengthy response for such a simple inquiry! > > Really, I'd just like to get gobject-introspection to compile on Arch > Linux. The problem is that gobject-introspection's configure.ac has the line > > AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5]) > > but gobject-introspection can't actually work with Python 3 or higher (the > default on Arch); it needs Python 2. Automake doesn't seem to provide a way > to specify this need. > > The problem could be fixed by changing AM_PATH_PYTHON could be changed to > prefer Python 2 over Python 3, as my patch does. However, I guess this > would cause packages that support both Python 2 and Python 3 to build > against Python 2 by default even if Python 3 is present. > > Pyconfigure looks like the best way forward, then, but it's not widely > deployed at this point. AM_PATH_PYTHON could also just be tweaked to > support a "max version" argument. I'm passing PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 to > autogen.sh for the time being. > As another workaround, you might copy the Automake-provided python.m4 file to a local m4 directory, apply your patch to this copy, and the ensure you invoke aclocal with a '-I' option that will cause your patched copy to be considered before the one bundled with Automake.
HTH, Stefano