spice-gtk @0.39 Python module pyparsing not found - Monterey arm64 and x86_64

[soundpassion]

Hi all,

during the build of the port of spice-gtk I got this error:

Error: Failed to configure spice-gtk: consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/work/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
Error: Failed to configure spice-gtk: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/main.log for details.

on meson-log.txt:

Message: Checking for python module pyparsing
Running command: /opt/local/bin/python3.9 -m pyparsing
--- stdout ---

--- stderr ---
/opt/local/bin/python3.9: No module named pyparsing.__main__; 'pyparsing' is a package and cannot be directly executed



subprojects/spice-common/meson.build:137:8: ERROR: Problem encountered: Python module pyparsing not found

on main.log

:info:configure spice-common| Message: Checking for python module pyparsing
:info:configure subprojects/spice-common/meson.build:137:8: ERROR: Problem encountered: Python module pyparsing not found
:info:configure A full log can be found at /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/work/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
:info:configure Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/work/spice-gtk-0.39" && /opt/local/bin/meson --prefix=/opt/local -Dgtk_doc=disabled -Dpolkit=disabled -Dsasl=disabled -Dsmartcard=disabled -Dusbredir=disabled -Dwebdav=disabled /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/work/spice-gtk-0.39 /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/work/build 
:info:configure Exit code: 1
:error:configure Failed to configure spice-gtk: consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/work/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
:error:configure Failed to configure spice-gtk: configure failure: command execution failed
:debug:configure Error code: NONE
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: command execution failed
:debug:configure     while executing
:debug:configure "$procedure $targetname"

Thanks for the support

both logs and py39-parsing module files check image attached.

Best regards

[PeteToscano (Pete Toscano)]

I see the same error on Intel.

[ironhilltech (Terry Stoneman)]

Ditto - same error on Intel.

[reneeotten (Renee Otten)]

problem appears to be that the check that meson does python -m pyparsing errors out with the current version (3.0.4) of py-parsing which didn't happen with the latest version in the 2.x branch. So this is likely not related to Monterey and will probably fail everywhere now.

This is an upstream issue and should be reported there (perhaps they've fixed it already; I looked briefly but didn't see the source code/version control system easily). Alternatively, one could probably patch out the check since we they're listed as dependencies and therefore installed anyway.

[reneeotten (Renee Otten)]

upstream bug report: ​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-common/-/issues/5

[reneeotten (Renee Otten)]

In a65887fc80ea2fda532ecb30690cee35ef563984/macports-ports (master):

spice-gtk: fix build failure due to pyparsing

Closes: #63751

[soundpassion]

thanks

[PeteToscano (Pete Toscano)]

Thank you.