[pygtk] Issues when building from source - missing _gtk.so

[themanatuf at juno.com]

-- "themanatuf at juno.com" <themanatuf at juno.com> wrote:
>I've spent a few hours on this one and I'm having some troubles. I'm >trying to build PyGTK 2.12.1 from source and everything builds fine >except _gtk.so. I'm using Python 2.6 (hence trying to build PyGTK >from source) and here is what I feel is the relevant information from >the configure script (please let me know if more is needed):
>
># ./configure --prefix=/usr
>...
>The following modules will be built:
>
>atk
>gtk with 2.10 API
>gtk.unixprint
>
>The following modules will NOT be built:
>
>pango
>pangocairo
>gtk.glade
>
>When I run make it creates a file called _gtk.la and in the .libs >directory has:
>
>atk.exp
>atk.la -> ../atk.la
>atk_la-atkmodule.o
>atk_la-atk.o
>atk.lai
>atk.so
>atk.ver
>
>I would have expected the gtk stuff to show up in there as well, but >it doesn't. Searching for _gtk.so within the PyGTK source directory >returns nothing.
>
>Can anyone please help me figure out why _gtk.so isn't getting built? >I'm sure it's something stupid, like a flag I forgot on the configure >line. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Chris

Ok, forget it. Naturally 5 minutes after I sent the email the issue worked itself out. _gtk.so was in gtk/.libs and not in .libs. Second, I was initially calling configure with --build=x86_64 and removing that created _gtk.so just fine. So I'm good to go.

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