Re: Unmarked dependency on python 2.5 in devel/glib2?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 30 January 2012 17:30, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 01:46:31PM +0100, Ian D. Leroux wrote:
>> With pkgsrc updated a few minutes, make package in devel/glib2 fails
>> with:
>>
>> ...
>> gmake[5]: Entering 
>> directory`/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/default/glib-2.30.2'
>> /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
>> gmake[5]: Leaving directory 
>> `/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/default/glib-2.30.2'
>>   GEN gdbus-test-codegen-generated.c
>> env: python2.5: No such file or directory
>> gmake[4]: *** [gdbus-test-codegen-generated.c] Error 127
>> ...
>>
>> I'm building this in a pkg_comp chroot, which is why python isn't
>> available until and unless it gets installed as a dependency.  Should
>> python be added to glib2's dependency list, or is something else going
>> on?
>
> I spent most of last week working on upgrading the glib2 package - I didn't
> post the package as I hadn't formulated the python question (and hadn't
> excised pkg-config) yet. Seems that work was wasted...
>
> gdbus-codegen is a python program.
> Not to be confused with the test framework which needs python.
>
> To quote its man page
>
>  gdbus-codegen is used to generate code and/or documentation for one
>  or more D-Bus interfaces. The tool reads Introspection XML files and
>  generates output files. The tool currently supports generating C code
>  and Docbook XML.
>
> So basically, if we want gdbus-codegen, we need to add the python 
> dependency...

Would this not be a suitable candidate for a separate package, albeit
one which depends on glib2 and may involve (re)building most of glib2
to provide...