[arch-multilib] feature request: lib32-libwebkit

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:41 AM, rafael ff1 <rafael.f.f1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
> 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.

Apologies, I'm probably dense, but how is this problem related to
python? My previous searching indicates that we did have lib32-python
in the AUR at some point, but it got deleted -
http://www.linux-archive.org/discussion-about-arch-user-repository-aur-aur-general-archlinux-org/486994-please-help-create-package-lib32-gobject-introspection.html