Re: Red Notebook will not build.

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

On 2019-05-07 15:37, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
...

> 
> When I look into the file that defines the Browser class I see it tries
> to import the "webKit2" package, version 4.0 which is not defined by
> guix. Then it defines a subclass of WebKit2.WebView which Python says
> is null.
> 
> Luckily there is a warning about what it is looking for:
> 
> ** (journal.py:2637): WARNING **: 07:12:54.144: Failed to load shared library 'libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37' referenced by the typelib: libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> ** (journal.py:2637): WARNING **: 07:12:54.144: Failed to load shared library 'libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so.18' referenced by the typelib: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so.18: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> This was the error I had before i updated guix. Both of these shared
> libraries are in the environment's $LIBRARY_PATH.

It is quite common that software is hardcoded to expect the libraries in 
certain paths e.g. /usr/lib or whatever. I suggest you substitute the 
path in journal.py to help it find the libraries.

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Cheers
Swedebugia