gtk-doc @1.26 does not build on PPC Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.8, because "Symbol not found: _PyUnicodeUCS2_AsUTF8String"

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gtk-doc/gtk-doc/work/gtk-doc-1.26/help/manual'
if ! test -d "bn_IN/"; then mkdir "bn_IN/"; fi
msgfmt -o "bn_IN/bn_IN.mo" "bn_IN/bn_IN.po"
if ! test -d "bn_IN/"; then mkdir "bn_IN/"; fi
if test -d "C"; then d="../"; else d="/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gtk-doc/gtk-doc/work/gtk-doc-1.26/help/manual/"; fi; \
	mo="bn_IN/bn_IN.mo"; \
	if test -f "${mo}"; then mo="../${mo}"; else mo="/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gtk-doc/gtk-doc/work/gtk-doc-1.26/help/manual/${mo}"; fi; \
	(cd "bn_IN/" && itstool -m "${mo}" ${d}/C/index.docbook ${d}/C/fdl-appendix.xml) && \
	touch "bn_IN/bn_IN.stamp"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/itstool", line 25, in <module>
    import libxml2
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: dlopen(/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2mod.so, 2): Symbol not found: _PyUnicodeUCS2_AsUTF8String
  Referenced from: /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

make[2]: *** [bn_IN/bn_IN.stamp] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_nue.de.rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gtk-doc/gtk-doc/work/gtk-doc-1.26/help/manual'

This looks like #54640 …

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Meanwhile gtk-doc @1.26_1 has built.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Take over Dave's tickets for GTK and friends, now that he's formally dropped maintainership. Boo! ;-)

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Peter, is this still an issue?

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

I think this is no issue now. Back then gtk-doc had to be built with some Python 2 version – and I had initially one variant installed that supported UCS4. This support did not get into many other packages and libraries so that ports using UCS4 failed to find the support for this feature in some shared library. Now gtk-doc uses some Python 3 versions with complete Unicode support. So it's gone – since two years?

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

gtk-doc @1.32_1+pdf+python38 is installed here recently.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Beautiful, glad we can finally close this!