Thanks Rainer. Pardon my ignorance, but could you elaborate on “bump the port version” please? I assume that will have ramifications for all the dependents as well.
Peter — [email protected] “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.” > On 13 Mar 2021, at 11:32 pm, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/03/2021 12.16, Peter West wrote: >>> I ran intoa brick wall with gexiv2, which was because the g-ir-* python >>> files >>> were specifying python38. I tried building gobject-introspection with 39, >>> but >>> fails. I don’t know whether I can classify this as a bug and make a report. >>> In >>> any case, has anyone else been tinkering with python39 builds on M1? >> :info:build g-ir-scanner: GLib: warning: 627 warnings suppressed (use >> --warn-all >> to see them) >> :info:build Traceback (most recent call last): >> :info:build File >> "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_pbw_Software_ports_gnome_gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-1.60.2/./g-ir-scanner", >> line 99, in <module> >> :info:build sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv)) >> :info:build File "./giscanner/scannermain.py", line 615, in scanner_main >> :info:build write_output(data, options) >> :info:build File "./giscanner/scannermain.py", line 469, in write_output >> :info:build passthrough_gir(main_f_name, temp_f) >> :info:build File "./giscanner/scannermain.py", line 260, in passthrough_gir >> :info:build parser.parse(path) >> :info:build File "./giscanner/girparser.py", line 60, in parse >> :info:build self.parse_tree(tree) >> :info:build File "./giscanner/girparser.py", line 69, in parse_tree >> :info:build self._parse_api(tree.getroot()) >> :info:build File "./giscanner/girparser.py", line 106, in _parse_api >> :info:build for node in root.getchildren(): >> :info:build AttributeError: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no >> attribute 'getchildren' > > This specific method had been deprecated for a while and was eventually > removed > in Python 3.9. It is a known problem at upstream that has already been fixed. > The fix would be included in gobject-introspection >= 1.65.0 > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/issues/325 > > Your best option would be to also bump the port version to get a version > compatible with Python 3.9. > > Rainer
