[Nix-dev] Trouble with pygobject

[Luca Bruno]

What pygobject are using? Please write down the .nix expression.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Richard Wallace <
rwallace at thewallacepack.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> On 31 October 2014 19:28, Richard Wallace <rwallace at thewallacepack.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> [...]
>> > Now I'm trying to get pithos (a Pandora GTK client) built [1].  Pithos
>> > builds and everything looks ok, but when I try and run it I get
>> > `ImportError: No module named gi`.  I'm not familiar with Python
>> > development, but a bit of Googling indicates that python can't
>> pygobject.
>> >
>> > Looking at the wrapper created, I see the path to
>> >
>> `/nix/store/hlyp3a9cy5k7qhfc1chd1v3bm2jljazn-pygobject-2.28.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages`
>> > included in the PYTHONPATH.
>>
>> I think you need to add gobjectIntrospection to buildInputs, and then
>> wrap the executable with GI_TYPELIB_PATH set to GI_TYPELIB_PATH from
>> the build environment. See the virt-manager expression for example.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  It seems to make sense, so I modified the
> package as you suggested [1]. Unfortunately I'm still getting the same
> error.
>
> The `pithos` script includes the line
>
>   export
> GI_TYPELIB_PATH=/nix/store/9imvrzskcak2998zj1242jxgl4p9m5dp-gst-plugins-base-1.4.1/lib/girepository-1.0:/nix/store/byi4j636s13m8w28nvqiakn6nzakmadr-gstreamer-1.4.1/lib/girepository-1.0:/nix/store/y06kp3fxw3r5r3nfkqzc8l3y7r3kvns0-libnotify-0.7.6/lib/girepository-1.0:/nix/store/4z6rr314xg1iszkn2wjvvl16yfmwgwa7-gobject-introspection-1.40.0/lib/girepository-1.0${GI_TYPELIB_PATH:+:}$GI_TYPELIB_PATH
>
> so it looks like it is doing what it is supposed to.
>
> Rich
>
> [1] http://pastebin.com/amAc8wpG
>
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