Re: pkgsrc-2019Q3 devel/glib2 build failure

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:31:19AM -0700, Benny Siegert wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:18 AM Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 05:02:54PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 09:37:15AM -0700, Benny Siegert wrote:
> > > > line 23, in <module>
> > > >     import xml.parsers.expat
> > > >   File "/usr/pkg/lib/python3.7/xml/parsers/expat.py", line 4, in <module>
> > > >     from pyexpat import *
> > > > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyexpat'
> > >
> > > so indeed you have py37-expat installed, as ...parsers/expat.py is found.
> >
> > That bit doesn't follow - but:
> >
> > > Question is, given that, why the import line fails. Any clues if you
> > > simply run python3.7 and then type "from pyexpat import *" ? I get:
> 
> No error message there:
> 
> $ ./2019Q3/bin/python3.7
> Python 3.7.4 (default, Oct 29 2019, 13:45:26)
> [GCC 7.4.0] on netbsd9
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from pyexpat import *
> >>> ^D

Then I don't know. I have now seen many problems with meson in pkgsrc
which I don't see with meson outside of pkgsrc.

P