Hippocanvas error :(

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Marco,
>>>
>>> some body has this same error
>>> http://pastebin.ca/raw/1019759
>>>
>>> i tried dpkg-reconfigure on each and every module of hippo in my
>>> system but still no luck
>>>
>>> I even reinstalled python-hippocanvas bindings but still same error
>>>
>>> what to do :(
>>
>> Something you could do (assuming the hippo canvas on your system is
>> recent enough) is to make jhbuild skip building it...
>
> Interesting thing that I noticed is that building hippo in jhbuild
> updates the source directory every time ... but hippo.so is present in
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ which has nothing to do with the
> build path of jhbuild :-/

The reason of the undefined symbol is that it's using
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/hippo.so with the jhbuild
libhippocanvas.so. So if you remove jhbuild libhippocanvas.so it might
work...

Marco