[PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13
I just upgraded the OS on a computer at work to fedora 13, and I am attempting to install sip and pyqt4 from source (since the versions provided by the package manager are surprisingly out of date.) When I run python configure.py, I get the following: --- Determining the layout of your Qt installation... Error: Qt has been built as static libraries so either the -g or -k argument should be used. --- I don't think this is accurate. I have installed the qt-devel package (4.6.3-8fc13.x86_64), and my /usr/lib64 contains the libQt*.so files for all the .so files I expected to see. Here are the contents of qtdirs.out: --- /usr/lib64/qt4 /usr/include /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/qt4/bin /usr/lib64/qt4 /usr/lib64/qt4/plugins 263683 1048575 Open Source PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug --- Could anyone suggest what I've overlooked? According to http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/14306102/dir/fedora_13/com/qt-4.6.3-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm.html , the packages I have installed should have provided the shared libraries, but I must be missing something. Thanks, Darren ___ PyQt mailing listPyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
Re: [PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Phil Thompson p...@riverbankcomputing.com wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:16:27 -0400, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded the OS on a computer at work to fedora 13, and I am attempting to install sip and pyqt4 from source (since the versions provided by the package manager are surprisingly out of date.) When I run python configure.py, I get the following: --- Determining the layout of your Qt installation... Error: Qt has been built as static libraries so either the -g or -k argument should be used. --- I don't think this is accurate. I have installed the qt-devel package (4.6.3-8fc13.x86_64), and my /usr/lib64 contains the libQt*.so files for all the .so files I expected to see. Here are the contents of qtdirs.out: --- /usr/lib64/qt4 /usr/include /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/qt4/bin /usr/lib64/qt4 /usr/lib64/qt4/plugins 263683 1048575 Open Source PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug --- Could anyone suggest what I've overlooked? According to http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/14306102/dir/fedora_13/com/qt-4.6.3-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm.html , the packages I have installed should have provided the shared libraries, but I must be missing something. configure.py is checking to see if QT_SHARED is defined (the blank line in the output implies it is not). The .pro it creates for qtdirs contains a workaround for certain broken distros to make sure it is set properly. Maybe the workaround no longer works. I found some bug reports/discussion that might be relevant: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-2098 http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-9110?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel from https://svn.zib.de/lenne3d/tools/cmake/2.4.5/Modules/FindQt4.cmake : # warning currently only qconfig.pri on Windows potentially contains static # so QT_SHARED might not get defined properly on Mac/X11 (which seems harmless right now) # Trolltech said they'd consider exporting it for all platforms in future releases. I tried also to find how the fedora devs managed to patch and build pyqt in the fedora environment, but I can't find anything. Aren't they compelled by the terms of the GPL to make such patches available? Darren ___ PyQt mailing listPyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
Re: [PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13
On 30/09/10 16:24, Darren Dale wrote: I tried also to find how the fedora devs managed to patch and build pyqt in the fedora environment, but I can't find anything. Aren't they compelled by the terms of the GPL to make such patches available? any patches should be in fedora's src.rpm for pyqt, along with the .spec file for building the binary package. nb: you can extract the files from an rpm with rpm2cpio (or a gui archiver like file-roller). ___ PyQt mailing listPyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
Re: [PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Baz Walter baz...@ftml.net wrote: On 30/09/10 16:24, Darren Dale wrote: I tried also to find how the fedora devs managed to patch and build pyqt in the fedora environment, but I can't find anything. Aren't they compelled by the terms of the GPL to make such patches available? any patches should be in fedora's src.rpm for pyqt, along with the .spec file for building the binary package. nb: you can extract the files from an rpm with rpm2cpio (or a gui archiver like file-roller). Thank you for that. I was able to build after applying this change: out QLibraryInfo::licensee() '\\n'; -#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL) +//#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL) out shared\\n; -#else -out \\n; -#endif +//#else +//out \\n; +//#endif Phil, it looks like QT_SHARED is somewhat fragile, or rather, it doesn't seem that the qt devs intended to support it for this particular use case. Is its use necessary in PyQt's configure.py? Based on the change required to build on Fedora, it doesn't seem so, but probably I'm overlooking its intended purpose. Darren ___ PyQt mailing listPyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
Re: [PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:34:28 -0400, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Baz Walter baz...@ftml.net wrote: On 30/09/10 16:24, Darren Dale wrote: I tried also to find how the fedora devs managed to patch and build pyqt in the fedora environment, but I can't find anything. Aren't they compelled by the terms of the GPL to make such patches available? any patches should be in fedora's src.rpm for pyqt, along with the .spec file for building the binary package. nb: you can extract the files from an rpm with rpm2cpio (or a gui archiver like file-roller). Thank you for that. I was able to build after applying this change: out QLibraryInfo::licensee() '\\n'; -#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL) +//#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL) out shared\\n; -#else -out \\n; -#endif +//#else +//out \\n; +//#endif Phil, it looks like QT_SHARED is somewhat fragile, or rather, it doesn't seem that the qt devs intended to support it for this particular use case. Is its use necessary in PyQt's configure.py? Yes it is necessary - but I could add a flag to configure.py to override the value detected. Based on the change required to build on Fedora, it doesn't seem so, but probably I'm overlooking its intended purpose. The reason it doesn't work on Fedora is that Fedora have messed with the Qt build. It's fine with a build from the Nokia sources. Phil ___ PyQt mailing listPyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
