On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, jiho wrote:
On 9 nov. 05, at 01:13, Michael Wybrow wrote:
There were a couple of problems with this package:
- It was missing all the translation files. This is probably due to a bug in your version of gcc which causes the configure test for a valid "dgettext" function to fail, even though it exists on OS X. (I've had the same problem. A workaround is to set "ac_cv_lib_intl_dgettext=yes"
My version of gcc is gcc 3.3 from os X on Tiger. How can I check if the nightlies I built have the same problem?
The nightlies have the problem if they are missing the Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/locale directory or it is empty.
And then how to I set "ac_cv_lib_intl_dgettext=yes"? is it in the makefile? as an environment variable? maybe it should be in the wiki somewhere (like in troubleshooting section)?
You can just set it as an environment variable, prior to running configure. I'll add a comment about this soon.
About package size: my packages are 24.8 MB and the resulting inkscape is 80 MB and I am apparently missing some files. Yours are 14 MB and resulting Inkscape is 32 MB and is complete. what am I doing wrong???
You're not doing anything wrong. It just that mine are stripped, and yours are not (i.e., the libraries still include all the debugging information).
- It did not have the correct paths set inside the executable, which causes problems like some of the icons not displaying in some cases. This is because when builing the OS X package, Inkscape should be configured with the "--enable-osxapp" option. I've documented this in the OS X package build script as well as in the wiki instructions.
I wasn't aware of the option sorry. Once again all seemed fine to me but I guess it is because I only tested it on my system. By the way, with previous builds (the only I did not do myself) I remarked that the tutorials were not accessible. Is it part of the same problem? can you access tutorials in my builds? I can in the pre2-2 I downloaded (I assume it is yours).
Yes, this would be the cause of the tutorials not being accessible. No, I couldn't access them in your build.
As to the wiki I'll rather put the option directly next to configure because the way it is now will probably lead people to configure make and make install before seeing it and they will have to redo the whole thing. In addition I guess that everybody compiling on os X will probably want his bundle.
Sure, feel free to change this. But also note that anyone building on OS X who is not planning to make bundles (i.e., anyone doing Inkscape development) won't want to use this option.
Additional note about python: As I understand it, python is shipped with mac os X, even without the developers packaged installed. does somebody knows if pyXML is somewhere inside this? fink apparently has a package pyxml for different versions of python but it requires to install python from fink which is a waste of space and compile time. in addition, know that there is an Inkscape package it would be great to be able to use it completely without fink. My idea behind this is that, as effects are enabled by default now, as most of them require pyxml, as mac os X has python and as mac users are lazy and want ready to use stuff, would it be possible to use os x python, or provide them with a package or... whatever.
I haven't looked at python or getting the effects working without fink. Please feel free explore what needs to be done to get this working nicely.
Cheers, Michael