[gcompris-devel] GCompris release 8.5RC3

[Bruno Coudoin]

Yes, GCompris can work without python, you will have less activities
that's all.

That said, I think we are making checks for python but you can bypass
the check with --enable-py-build-only

Bruno.


Le dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 14:34 +0800, julien forgeat a écrit :
> 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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