Re: pkg/45472: devel/py-gobject: Undefined PLT symbol "PyDict_SetItemString"

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45472; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/45472: devel/py-gobject: Undefined PLT symbol 
"PyDict_SetItemString"
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:47:58 +0200

 On 10/14/2011 10:00 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/45472; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/45472: devel/py-gobject: Undefined PLT symbol
 >  "PyDict_SetItemString"
 > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:56:16 +0200
 > 
 >  Well, from what I can see the problem is simply that neither _glib.so
 >  nor any of its dependencies actually links against libpython.
 >  
 >  Joerg
 
 
 Hi Joerg,
 
 I'm interpreting your statement as agreement that something is wrong
 with the py-gobject package, and it's not user error.  I just checked
 pkgsrc.se/devel/py-gobject and saw the maintainer is "pkgsrc-users".
 Who is normally assigned issues with python modules?
 
 Personally I dislike the language due to numerous problems building
 software that uses it (version incompatibilities, confusion when
 multiple versions present, etc), so I really don't know much about
 Python as I try to avoid it where I can.  I'm not the best person to try
 to fix this, although I might try later if this PR is not assigned to
 anybody.
 
 John