[Scribus] Python and configure

[Rainer Heilke]

Rainer Heilke wrote:

> Plinnell wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 23:41, Owen wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:32:06 -0600
>>>
>>> Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Since much of Scribus needs the new versions of the other software, I
>>>> naturally slurped down Python 2.4. It turns out configure only 
>>>> looks for
>>>> 2.3 or lower. This was a simple fix on my part; I created symbolic 
>>>> links
>>>> for python2.3 pointing to python2.4 in the include and lib 
>>>> directories.
>>>> My latest run of configure sees it.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I think there was a similar problem when Python went from 2.2 to 2.3
>>>
>>> Don't understand configure schema, but maybe if you changed these 
>>> lines to
>>> show 2.4 in lieu of 2.3, it may also fix the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> if test -z ""2.3""; then
>>>  version="1.5"
>>> else
>>>  version=""2.3""
>>> fi
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Bug submitted: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1234
>>
>> Please add comments or fixes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
> Thanks for logging the "bug".
>
> I actually tried changing the above lines, but that didn't seem to fix 
> the issue properly. I also don't understand the configure schema, so I 
> didn't want to pursue this too deeply. I'm honestly not much of a 
> programmer at all, so... My hack solves the issue well enough for now.
>
> Thanks for the replies (to both of you).

Actually, let me correct that. Seems it was a combination of the change 
in configure and the links that did the trick. I just ran configure 
again (after doing the CVS), and it failed again.  So, I went through 
the configure script and changed all entries of 2.3 and 2_3 (if they 
were Python-related) to 2.4 or 2_4. That worked without any errors, and 
I've now started the make.

So, it is an easy fix, but more than just the above lines...

Rainer