From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia Subject: Re: Red Notebook will not build. Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 08:54:42 +0200 Message-ID: <2777bbd5-02ab-6991-183d-34e6492467ee@riseup.net> References: <20190506220104.3ef3e83f@gmail.com> <87ef5ava66.fsf@lprndn.info> <20190507073708.4a71307e@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47293) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOGTZ-0002X8-Kp for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 02:54:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOGTY-0002qz-LN for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 02:54:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:44978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOGTY-0002qX-BC for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 02:54:48 -0400 Received: from capuchin.riseup.net (capuchin-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25E7B1A2F43 for ; Tue, 7 May 2019 23:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by capuchin.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7EAB4120502 for ; Tue, 7 May 2019 23:54:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20190507073708.4a71307e@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org 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. -- Cheers Swedebugia