[PyKDE] install problem with PyQT

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, markus jais wrote:

> Hallo, I have downloaded the newest version of  PyQt (PyQt-2.1) and
> sip-2.1 from the "www.theKompany.com" - website.
> 
> installing sip was without problems. it also found the Qt libs.
> 
> but PyQt made problems. 
> a "make" was fine, but a "make install" quittet after
> a while with the following error message:
> -------------------------------------------
> /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./qt.py 
> /usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/qt.py
>  make  install-data-hook
>  make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/home/markus/software/devel/python/pykde/PyQt-2.1/qt'
>  (cd /tmp; 
> PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages:/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages 
> python -c "import qt")
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/qt.py", line 16, in ?
>          import libqtc
>          ImportError: /usr/local/lib/libsip.so.3: undefined symbol: 
> translate__C12QApplicationPCcN21
>          make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1
>          make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/markus/software/devel/python/pykde/PyQt-2.1/qt'         make[2]: *** 
> [install-data-am] Error 2
>          make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/markus/software/devel/python/pykde/PyQt-2.1/qt'         make[1]: *** 
> [install-am] Error 2
>          make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/markus/software/devel/python/pykde/PyQt-2.1/qt'         make: *** 
> [install-recursive] Error 1     
> --------------------------------
> 
> sip is included in /etc/ld.so.conf and I also executed ldconfig
> 
> can anybody tell me, what went wrong here. the Qt-bindings look really good
> and because Python is my favourite langauge, I really would like to use it
> 

Are you sure that sip was configured with Qt support? Check the output
from ./configure to make sure.