On Mar 18, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
>
> On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
>
>> On 03/17/2012 11:20 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:38 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> sip-py24 (need it as a dep for flyway-py) fails to build on 10.5/i386
>>>>
>>>> c++ -c -pipe -fPIC -Os -w -DNDEBUG -I. -I/sw/include/python2.4 -o bool.o
>>>> bool.cpp
>>>> c++ -headerpad_max_install_names -bundle -o sip.so siplib.o apiversions.o
>>>> descriptors.o qtlib.o threads.o objmap.o voidptr.o bool.o
>>>> Undefined symbols:
>>>> "_PySequence_GetItem", referenced from:
>>>> _parsePass1 in siplib.o
>>>> _parsePass2 in siplib.o
>>>> "_PyCObject_Type", referenced from:
>>>> _PyCObject_Type$non_lazy_ptr in voidptr.o
>>>> "_PyBaseObject_Type", referenced from:
>>>> _PyBaseObject_Type$non_lazy_ptr in siplib.o
>>>> "_PyObject_GC_UnTrack", referenced from:
>>>> _forgetObject in siplib.o
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sip-py25 works, and the equivalent compiler command is
>>>>
>>>> c++ -headerpad_max_install_names -bundle -L/sw/lib/python2.5/config -ldl
>>>> -lpython2.5 -o sip.so siplib.o apiversions.o descriptors.o qtlib.o
>>>> threads.o objmap.o voidptr.o bool.o
>>>>
>>>> Looks like there's no python2.4-config to provide those flags.
>>>>
>>>> Hanspeter
>>>
>>> Why do you need -py24? Can you use a newer one? I have no system capable of
>>> building python24 (only 10.5 has it) and so can't really try to come up
>>> with a fix. At this point, unless someone can come up with a reasonable
>>> fix, I'd rather just remove sip-py24 since it doesn't build. The -py24 has
>>> just been carried forward through inertia and this is the first failure I
>>> heard of even though it must have been broken for a long time. Also,
>>> python24 is pretty ancient so I'm unwilling to put much effort into
>>> supporting it, especially since I can't run it myself. :)
>>
>> flyway-py24 (the only existing variant in the 10.5/6 tree) has sip-py24
>> as a dependency and this was being done in the context of the stable
>> migration.
>>
>> I did not try to see if flyway-py could be bumped up to a newer python
>> version, but I've now cc'd the flyway-py maintainer to see if it can be
>> changed from py24 to py25+.
>>
>> Assuming that sip-py24 needs to be kept in Fink, a hack would be to
>> conditionalize the evaluation of `%p/bin/python%type_raw[python]-config
>> --ldflags` inside the LFLAGS_PLUGIN chunk of CompileScript so that !24
>> uses what's there, and py24 manually adds the needed -L.
>>
>> The following is the short list of packages have a listed dependency on
>> sip-py24
>>
>> pyqt4-mac-py24
>> pyqt-py24
>> qscintilla2-qt4-*-py24
>>
>> I did not follow the dependency tree further down to see what would
>> depend on these.
>
> Those are all mine and make up the pyqt4 suite.
>
> No packages directly dep on sip-py24 except for pyqt (for qt3 not 4) and
> nothing uses that anymore and I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't even
> build anymore. I'd suggest getting rid it altogether. 3 packages indirectly
> dep on sip-py24 through pyqt4: traits-backend-qt-py, spyder{-mac|-x11}-py,
> and flyway-py. Only flyway-py has only a py24 variant; the others have more
> recent variants too.
>
> I think we should just kill all py24 variants in those packages since there
> are so few. If flyway-py can't work with something newer than py24 then it
> should go too. It's very old and the upstream site is long gone.
>
> I'm unwilling to put specialized conditional code in sip-py that I can't even
> test just for one ancient package. The pyqt4/sip packages are complicated
> enough to maintain as it is. :)
>
Oh, my bad, flyway-py uses _pyqt_, not pyqt4. It's almost certainly not going
to work as our pyqt is terribly bitrotten.
Daniel
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