avahi fails to build on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

[scott@…]

Avahi (which GNUCash depends upon) fails to build on OSX Leopard:

--->  Fetching avahi
--->  Attempting to fetch avahi-0.6.17.tar.gz from http://avahi.org/download/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for avahi
--->  Extracting avahi
--->  Configuring avahi
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_avahi/work/avahi-0.6.17" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-autoipd --disable-qt3 --disable-qt4 --disable-mono --disable-monodoc --with-distro=darwin " returned error 1
Command output: checking for sys/prctl.h... no
checking for chroot... yes
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) yes
checking for pkg-config... yes
checking for pkg-config... /opt/local/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GLIB20... yes
checking for GTK20... yes
checking for GLADE20... yes
checking for DBUS... yes
Your D-Bus version is 1,0,2.
checking for dbus_connection_close... yes
checking for dbus_bus_get_private... yes
checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes
checking expat.h usability... yes
checking expat.h presence... yes
checking for expat.h... yes
checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... yes
checking gdbm.h usability... yes
checking gdbm.h presence... yes
checking for gdbm.h... yes
checking for LIBDAEMON... yes
checking whether /opt/local/bin/python2.5 version >= 2.4... yes
checking for /opt/local/bin/python2.5 version... 2.5
checking for /opt/local/bin/python2.5 platform... darwin
checking for /opt/local/bin/python2.5 script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for /opt/local/bin/python2.5 extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages
checking for python module gtk... no
configure: error: Could not find Python module gtk

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: evince avahi nautilus eel gnome-desktop startup-notification gnome-menus shared-mime-info gnucash-docs yelp firefox-x11 zip goffice03 guile16 readline ncurses ncursesw libgtkhtml3 p5-finance-quote p5-crypt-ssleay p5-libwww-perl p5-compress-zlib p5-compress-raw-zlib p5-io-compress-base p5-scalar-list-utils p5-io-compress-zlib p5-html-parser p5-html-tagset p5-uri p5-datemanip p5-html-tableextract slib slib-guile16
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[sinclair.jesse@…]

avahi will compile properly if you disable python pre-build. In the avahi Portfile, change the configure.args to

configure.args  \
        --disable-autoipd \
        --disable-qt3 \
        --disable-qt4 \
        --disable-mono \
        --disable-monodoc \
        --disable-python

Then run: port install avahi

[vlado@…]

I can confirm the bug (on Leopard). The solution posted here, adding "--disable-python" to the configure.args, works for me as well. Maybe someone could change the official Portfile? I needed avahi for Evince, which now works at last.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Assigning to maintainer.

[nox@…]

I'm not anymore avahi's maintainer.

[blb@…]

Can anyone still reproduce this, as 0.6.22 builds fine for me on 10.5.5 Intel, Xcode 3.1.1?

[scott@…]

I totally forgot I had filed this bug. The problem was resolved some time ago for me, so as far as I'm concerned we can close it out.

Thanks!

[adrianrf@…]

Replying to blb@…:

Can anyone still reproduce this, as 0.6.22 builds fine for me on 10.5.5 Intel, Xcode 3.1.1?

I am seeing the same error with

avahi 0.6.24
Mac OS X 10.5.6
Xcode 3.1.2

[adrianrf@…]

Replying to adrianrf@…:

Replying to blb@…:

Can anyone still reproduce this, as 0.6.22 builds fine for me on 10.5.5 Intel, Xcode 3.1.1?

I am seeing the same error with

avahi 0.6.24
Mac OS X 10.5.6
Xcode 3.1.2

and the same fix works: was able to build avahi by adding --disable-python to the avahi portfile.

Adrian Russell-Falla

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