[sugar] Installing sugar on Debian lenny

[Sascha Silbe]

Hi!

Not sure if this is the correct list but I couldn't find a better match.





Problems encountered so far:
1. "build-base" has been renamed to "bootstrap" in sugar-jhbuild, but
   even the output of --help-commands gives the old name (how about
   autogeneration of the commands list?).

2. "bootstrap" fails in some random package because libbz2-dev wasn't
   installed (not mentioned on the wiki page) => Python didn't build
   bz2 module

3. Even though [1] tells me that running "./sugar-jhbuild bootstrap"
   is sufficient to get all dependencies (apart from some required for
   bootstrap itself), "build" is telling me to install a whole load a
   packages (which I did).

4. GConf-dbus not finding gtk packages during install: Worked around
   by exporting PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig prior to invoking
   sugar-jhbuild.

4. When trying to build sugar-base, some auto* tool
   (aclocal?) doesn't find the definition of AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
   (contained in /usr/share/aclocal/glib-gettext.m4).
   Worked around be manually checking out a clean copy of
   sugar-base and invoking the autogen.sh command that failed
   from within sugar-jhbuild. Exporting
   ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/share/aclocal" did NOT help.

5. When trying to build hippo-canvas, configure doesn't accept
   librsvg. config.log complains about not finding pthread-stubs.pc.
   Worked around by adding /usr/share/pkgconfig to
   PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

6. When trying to build hippo-canvas, the auto* tools have trouble
   with the GTK documentation:


   Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
   configure.ac:9: installing `config/install-sh'
   configure.ac:9: installing `config/missing'

   docs/Makefile.am:39:   `docs/../gtk-doc.make' included from here

   docs/Makefile.am:39:   `docs/../gtk-doc.make' included from here

   docs/Makefile.am:39:   `docs/../gtk-doc.make' included from here

   Makefile.am:64:   `Makefile-introspection.am' included from here
   Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
   Makefile.am: installing `config/depcomp'
   autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
   configure: WARNING: Unrecognized options: --enable-gtk-doc
   [...]
   checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
   checking for LIBHIPPOCANVAS... yes
   ./configure: line 20822: syntax error near unexpected token `1.6'
   ./configure: line 20822: `GTK_DOC_CHECK(1.6)'


   Worked around be manually checking out a clean copy of hippo-canvas
   and invoking the autogen.sh command that failed from within
   sugar-jhbuild.

7. sugar-toolkit: Same as sugar-base.

8. artwork: icon-slicer missing. Fetched source package
   icon-slicer_0.3-1ubuntu2 from Ubuntu and built it for lenny.

9. sugar: Similar to sugar-base, but with more errors. Same workaround
   (still some error messages, but appears to build fine).

10. evince: Some auto* stuff again:

    Checking for required M4 macros...
      gnome-common.m4 not found
      gnome-compiler-flags.m4 not found
      glib-gettext.m4 not found
      intltool.m4 not found
      gtk-doc.m4 not found
    ***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build evince
      were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
      macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
      ACLOCAL_FLAGS?

   Worked around by exporting ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/share/aclocal".

11. xulrunner: zip missing. Installed.

12. read-activity: setup.py cannot import sugar.activity:

    *** Building read-activity *** [1/1]
    python setup.py build
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "setup.py", line 19, in ?
        from sugar.activity import bundlebuilder
    ImportError: No module named sugar.activity


    This is where I'm currently stuck at. Juggling with PYTHONPATH,
    PYTHON_LIB and PYTHONHOME gives me several different error
    messages, but I don't think it can help - both Python and
    sugar* were built by sugar-jhbuild, so adding paths to
    system-provided modules and libraries is only going to make
    it worse, not better.


[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Debian

CU Sascha

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I'm currently trying to install sugar (Sucrose) on Debian lenny (fresh install on a laptop) using sugar-jhbuild (the official packages are rather old) as root. There are several problems; inconsistent instructions don't make it any easier. In general, I'm following the "Sugar on Debian" wiki page [1]. That page in itself is already a bit inconsistent (e.g. last sentence of first paragraph vs. section 1.3.3). If there's no objection I'm going to fix that and some of the things mentioned below. Most of the problems seem to be search path related (so probably have the main root cause); for the last one, I haven't found any solution or workaround yet so I'm stuck. ./autogen.sh --prefix /usr/local/src/sugar-jhbuild/install --libdir '${exec_prefix}/lib' docs/../gtk-doc.make:7: GTK_DOC_USE_LIBTOOL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL docs/../gtk-doc.make:48: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL docs/../gtk-doc.make:153: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Makefile-introspection.am:16: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension *** error during stage configure of hippo-canvas: ########## Error running ./autogen.sh --prefix /usr/local/src/sugar-jhbuild/install --libdir '${exec_prefix}/lib' *** [9/41] *** error during stage build of read-activity: ########## Error running python setup.py build *** [1/1]

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