[Eric] question about installing from svn

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Darren Dale wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Detlev Offenbach
>
> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de>wrote:
> > On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Darren Dale wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am trying to install eric from the svn checkout, but it looks like
> > > the checkout is not structured the way install.py expects it to be:
> > >
> > > $ sudo python install.py
> > > Compiling debugger files.
> > > Listing eric ...
> > > Can't list eric
> > >
> > > Installing eric4 ...
> > > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'eric/eric4.pth'
> > > Try install as root.
> > >
> > > there is no eric/ directory next to install.py, it looks like
> > > everything that should be in trunk/eric is in trunk/. Have I missed
> > > something?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Darren
> >
> > The svn checkout is the development source. You can run it without
> > installation by cd into that directory and do python eric4.py. In order
> > to get an installation package I am running a shell script, that does
> > some cleanup and tweaks to the code.
>
> I have installed the March 20 PyQt-4.5 snapshot and its dependencies, run a
> few of the PyQt4 examples and the QScintilla qt4 example without problems,
> but I can't launch Eric4. I get segfaults with both the svn sources and
> with the 4.3.1 release. My system is 64-bit kubuntu jaunty, Qt-4.5. I also
> tested last week on the same computer with kubuntu intrepid and Qt-4.4.3
> and saw segfaults there as well.
>
> Is there anything I can do to help track down the problem?
>
> Darren

I am running eric4 with Qt 4.5 and the stable release of PyQt4 and the other 
prerequisites and that works ok. I haven't tried the development snapshots 
yet because there are still too much changes going on right now. I'll give 
them a try when it best fits into the eric4 development.

The svn version supports the --debug option. That should give some output in 
the console so you might get an indication where the seg fault occurs. You 
can compile PyQt4 with debugging support as well and run the stuff in a 
debugger. I did this way back when PyQt4 was in it's beginnings.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de