[gcompris-devel] GCompris release 8.5RC3

[julien forgeat]

Thanks Sérgio,

I have another question / comment: is it normal that configure script
does not fail if Python is not installed on the machine? In other
words, is Python mandatory to build and run GCompris?

Cheers,

Julien

2009/11/15 Sérgio Durigan Júnior <sergiosdj at gmail.com>:
> Hello Julien,
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:36 AM, julien forgeat
> <julienforgeat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On GLinux, I did not manage to build the software, I have the following error:
>>  goocanvasmodule.c: In function ‘_cairo_pattern_from_gvalue’:
>>  goocanvasmodule.c:38: error: too many arguments to function
>> ‘Pycairo_CAPI->Pattern_FromPattern’
>
> I believe that's my fault.  PyCairo has changed its interface and
> Gcompris had to adapt in order to compile successful, so I sent a
> patch to fix it.  You're using an old version of PyCairo, but here I'm
> using the latest version of it, so that's why I can build Gcompris
> successfuly but you can't.
>
> Unfortunately, it seems PyCairo doesn't have any versioning system
> present on its header files, so I think it's probably impossible to
> #ifdef this function call.
>
> Bruno, what convention do you follow in those situations?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sérgio.
>
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