Hippocanvas error :(

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
>
>> Talking with Joel, looks like hippo-canvas only builds the python
>> bindings if the prerequisites are already installed. If not, silently
>> omits them.
>>
>> I added python-cairo-dev to the ubuntu dependencies, but perhaps the
>> python bindings should be built incondicionaly?
>
> what I did was
> $ sudo apt-get duild-dep python-hippocanvas
> but still the error remains,
>
> Marco is right, hippo.so has conflict with libhippocanvas-0-1.so that
> is present in the install/lib/ directory, removing these libs makes
> hippo.so work but poses new errors
> that are
> journal fails to load and every other activity as well
> logmanager.py get permission denied errors to write to
> .sugar/default/logs directory :-/ and some error that says "Unable to
> create window at <hexa vaule some thing> "
>
> and again building libhippocanvas will remove these errors but "import
> hippo" will fail :(
>
> any body tried sugar-jhbuild in Ubuntu Hardy ???

What I recommend you is:

- cd sugar-jhbuild
- git-pull
- ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck and install any missing deps
- rm -rf source/hippo-canvas
- ./sugar-jhbuild buildone hippo-canvas

Works for you?

Regards,

Tomeu