[libvirt] FreeBSD Port, update to 0.9.2 compile error

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:08:02PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:45:41PM -0600, Eric Blake thus spake:
> >On 06/07/2011 09:27 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to update the port for libvirt to 0.9.2, but am receiving a new
> >> compiling error, that I have not seen yet.
> >
> >Is this a VPATH build?
> >
> >> `/home/jhelfman/ports/devel/libvirt/work/libvirt-0.9.2/docs'
> >>   GEN    libvirt-api.xml
> >> ./apibuild.py: not found
> >
> >What does 'gmake V=1' show for the full command being attempted here?
> >
> >> Any thoughts?
> >
> >Possibly a missing make dependency, or a VPATH problem.  I'll try to
> >find some time to look into it tomorrow (it's late for me tonight).
> >
> 
> I found the issue in building was an absolute path for apibuild.py for
> python, that is incorrect on FreeBSD.

 okay, where is it on FreeBSD ?

> Here is a patch:
> 
> - --- ./docs/apibuild.py.orig	2011-06-07 21:31:43.000000000 -0700
> +++ ./docs/apibuild.py	2011-06-07 21:31:55.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> - -#!/usr/bin/python -u
> +#!/usr/bin/env python

  I have seens people complaining loudly because env was used like this
for example:

http://forums.westhost.com/showthread.php?9984-usr-bin-env-python-doesn-t-work

  another way would be to launch python directly giving the path to the
python script, this is likely to solve the issue there.

Daniel

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