[maemo-developers] trouble autobuilding python bindings, configure barfs on python2.5

[From: Owen Williams]

Thanks for the off-list message.  The answer was indeed a missing
build-depends section in the control file.

owen


On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 09:17 -0400, Owen Williams wrote:
> I am trying to upload my package to extras, and it keeps failing.  While
> my application is mostly python, I have to build python-gtkmozembed
> support for it.  I thought I set up the debian/rules file correctly but
> it's failing now.
> 
> The build log is here:
> https://garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/penguintv_3.8-1/armel.build.log.FAILED.txt
> 
> debian/rules runs configure with this line (host and build are
> autodetect):
> PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.5 ../../gtkmozembed/configure    \
> 	--host=arm-linux-gnueabi	     \
> 	--build=arm-linux-gnueabi	   \
> 	--prefix=/usr \
> 	--with-gtkmozembed=gtkembedmoz
> 
> 
> and then it bombs here:
> 
> checking whether /usr/bin/python2.5 version >= 2.3... configure: error: too old
> make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
> 
> 
> which makes no sense.  python2.5 is clearly newer than 2.3, but whatever
> configure is using to test the version number is failing.  Am I doing
> something wrong?
> 
> thanks,
> Owen Williams