meld failed to build on 10.6.8 -- missing pygtk?

[deanmalmgren]

I just tried to install meld. Midway through the build it complained and, after running brew update and re-running brew install meld, meld completed the build. The trouble is that when I try to run meld from the command line, it complains about missing librarires

[unix]$ meld
Couldn't bind the translation domain. Some translations won't work.
'module' object has no attribute 'bindtextdomain'
Cannot import: pygtk
No module named pygtk

Here is a gist with my brew --config, 01.make, and brew doctor output. Any help here would be appreciated.

[jacknagel]

If you're using the system Python, you'll have to set PYTHONPATH so that it can find the pygtk module:

export PYTHONPATH=$(brew --prefix)/lib/python2.6/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

This should also be suggested by brew info pygtk if I'm not mistaken.

[deanmalmgren]

Thanks; that fixed the problem by setting PYTHONPATH in my ~/.bashrc.

I didn't know about brew info and I suspect that others may not be aware either. Its kind of a pity that brew does not set this globally, perhaps with an appropriate entry in /etc/launchd.conf. Out of curiosity, what's the rationale for requiring brew users to manipulate their PYTHONPATH like this rather than setting it at the global level?

I'm a bit of a n00b, but I'm happy to write a patch to get this working.

[jacknagel]

By policy we don't modify system files. But as I said, this information is printed after installing pygtk (and other things that require the same env variable to be set) as well.

[deanmalmgren]

What about creating a wrapper script that sets and unsets PYTHONPATH before
and after meld execution?
On Jun 25, 2013 9:50 AM, "Jack Nagel" notifications@github.com wrote:

By policy we don't modify system files.

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