[sugar] Hippocanvas error :(

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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...
>>
>
> no use what so ever
> can any body tell what this symbol in hippo.so ?
> undefined symbol: hippo_cascade_mode_get_type

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?

Regards,

Tomeu