[arch-multilib] feature request: lib32-libwebkit

[rafael ff1]

2012/2/3 Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Harvey <harv at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Trying to build it now, since lib32 variants of all its dependencies are
>>> available on the aur. Hope it works....
>>
>>
>> Good Luck! Could you post a short message if it works? I tried this a long
>> time ago but at that time not all dependencies could be satisfied.
>>
>>
>>
>> Harvey
>
> I got all the dependencies so far (these are all in the AUR, there's a
> TON of dependencies to build):-
> depends=('lib32-icu' 'lib32-gstreamer0.10-base' 'lib32-libsoup'
> 'lib32-libxslt' 'lib32-enchant')
> makedepends=('lib32-gtk2')
>
> Building goes as far as this (just the error message):-
>  GEN    WebKit-1.0.gir
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 46, in <module>
>    sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv))
>  File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 407, in
> scanner_main
>    ss = create_source_scanner(options, args)
>  File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 332, in
> create_source_scanner
>    ss.parse_files(filenames)
>  File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/sourcescanner.py", line 249, i
> n parse_files
>    self._parse(headers)
>  File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/sourcescanner.py", line 282, i
> n _parse
>    stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
>    errread, errwrite)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1228, in _execute_child
>    raise child_exception
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [WebKit-1.0.gir] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/local/aur/lib32-libwebkit/src/webkit-1.6.1
> /build-gtk2'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Anyone has any ideas? I'm outputting the entire thing to an error file
> overnight (took my dual core 2.4 GHz laptop about an hour to reach
> this point, not counting building the deps).
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As I said 6 months ago, this problem is related to python. Currently
Archlinux doesn't have a multilib package for python and the main
issue is that python is not multilib-friendly. Anyway, my idea is: try
to create a python-multilib or lib32-python package.