dev-python/imaging does not install "Imaging.h", "ImPlatform.h"

[Philipp Ludwig]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm facing the problem that the package "dev-python/imaging" does not install the header files "Imaging.h" and "ImPlatform.h", which are required to merge "media-gfx/uniconvertor", which itself is a dependency of the vector-drawing program inkscape.

 

During compile time, the header files are located in:

/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/imaging-2.6.1-r1000/work/Pillow-2.6.1/libImaging/

They should be copied to /usr/include/python2.7, but this is not the case which causes the compile process of uniconvertor to fail.

I tried to modify the imaging ebuild, but I am not very familiar with this.

 

If anyone has any suggestions regarding this issue, I would be very happy to read them.

[jorgicio]

The same thing happend to me.

I reported it as a bug in the bug tracker, and they said the newest version of uniconvertor will be masked for now.

Meanwhile, as a workaround, I created the imaging-headers ebuild. That's on my overlay:

 

https://github.com/jorgicio/jorgicio-gentoo

 

Install it, (together with imaging itself and python-imaging), then compile the newest version of uniconvertor, and all works like a charm.

[Philipp Ludwig]

Thank you very much for your work, this works perfectly!

[jorgicio]

You're welcome :D

 

Also, there's something I can't understand: Why Funtoo imaging package does not generating the headers as the Gentoo ebuild does. Anyone knows?

[Philipp Ludwig]

Maybe these files are deprecated, but I'm not sure.

[dantrell]

The short answer is that our trees are not exactly same and even though we may have similar packages, the contents of the ebuilds itself can wildly diverge. Since our team is small, it takes time for things to get updated.

[jorgicio]

Ok, but at least, if some packages are working fine as they where (as happened with Gentoo), I don't know why the modifications done, for example, with imaging. Indeed, it's using the former name (now it's called Pillow).

[jorgicio]

Breaking news: The problem is definitively fixed with the new upgrade of imaging. So my workaround is not needed anymore.

[Oleg Vinichenko]

this is fixed by Arfrever see https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-1672