Obsolete jhbuild start script

[Mokurai]

I have compiled and run sugar-jhbuild on other Linux distributions with varying success. This is the first time I couldn't compile anything. Steps 1-5 seemed to work as expected. Steps 6 and 7 ran but produced an unexpected error message, which I don't understand. Step 7 failed completely.

1. Install Fedora 10 in VirtualBox from downloaded image.
2. sudo yum update
3. Install prerequisites listed on Development_Team/Jhbuild/Fedora
4. git clone  git://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-jhbuild/mainline.git sugar-jhbuild
5. cd sugar-jhbuild
6. ./sugar-jhbuild update

At end of run, says

sugar-jhbuild: Obsolete jhbuild start script, do run 'make install'

7. ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck

Updating sugar-jhbuild...
Already up-to-date.
Updating upstream jhbuild...
Already up-to-date.
sugar-jhbuild: Obsolete jhbuild start script, do run 'make install'

8. /sugar-jhbuild build

sugar-jhbuild: Obsolete jhbuild start script, do run 'make install'

[Mokurai]

Sorry, step 8 failed completely.

[morfila]

I'm having the same problem in Ubuntu 9.04 with the latest updates and Ubuntu 8.10 either just installed (without updates) and with the latest updates.

It used to work in Ubuntu 8.10, I was using it some time ago (one or two months ago).

As far as I can see, in file "jhbuild/jhbuild/config.py", the following "try-except" fails:

try:

SRCDIR

except NameError:

raise FatalError(_('Obsolete jhbuild start script, do run \'make install\))

It seems that SRCDIR is not defined. Where should it be defined?
Here's the ouptut of a search for string "SRCDIR":

=[ BEGIN find ]============================================
morfila@morfila-laptop:~/ceibaljam/sugar/sugar-jhbuild$ find . -type f -name '*.py' -exec grep -H SRCDIR {} \;
./jhbuild/tests/tests.py:builtin.dictSRCDIR? = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), '..')
./jhbuild/tests/tests.py:sys.path.insert(0, SRCDIR)
./jhbuild/jhbuild/moduleset.py: moduleset_local_path = os.path.join(SRCDIR, 'modulesets')
./jhbuild/jhbuild/commands/bot.py: basedir = os.path.join(SRCDIR, 'buildbot')
./jhbuild/jhbuild/versioncontrol/hg.py: if os.path.exists(SRCDIR):
./jhbuild/jhbuild/versioncontrol/hg.py: hg_update_path = os.path.join(SRCDIR, 'scripts', 'hg-update.py')
./jhbuild/jhbuild/versioncontrol/tarball.py: os.path.join(SRCDIR, 'patches', patch)):
./jhbuild/jhbuild/config.py: SRCDIR
morfila@morfila-laptop:~/ceibaljam/sugar/sugar-jhbuild$
=[ END find ]==============================================

The addition of SRCDIR into "builtin" should be enough,
but it seems it's not working.

Regards,

Marcos

[mcbrighton]

I get the same result on fresh installs of both Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10.

[RafaelOrtiz]

fwiw

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582490

[morfila]

It happens with a fresh install of Debian 5.0 two.
In the bugzilla ticket it says it is resolved :-(

[RafaelOrtiz]

this patch fixes the problem

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=135004&action=view

has to be applied to sugar-jhbuild script.

[erikos]

Fix does work for me as well - Sascha do you want to have a last look at it and commit then?

[garycmartin]

Fab, fix is also working well here on my F10 based, sugar-jhbuild VirtualBox Mac environment. FWIW I did have one other issue I had to manually fix before I could successfully build, the error was:

*** Building sugar-update-control *** [22/37]
python setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 2, in <module>
    from DistUtilsExtra.command import * # gettext support
ImportError: No module named DistUtilsExtra.command

I re-tried:

	./sugar-jhbuild depscheck

...but this gave no indication that the module was needed, or missing, so I manually installed it with:

	sudo yum install python-distutils-extra

Build was all happy after this.

[sascha_silbe]

Just pushed the fix I did on saturday, it's essentially the
same as the one tagged for review. I have not yet fixed all
other issues (e.g. the do_checkout on MetaModule backtrace),
though.
I'm still in bed with the nasty cold I imported from Paris.
Bernie, could you have a look at it, please?

[bernie]

Works for me, thanks!