[PyKDE] gears demo segfault

[Phil Thompson]

Tad Thurston wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am rather a newbie at Python, but I would like to start focusing my
> development there using the PyQt module.  I am using debian, but the deb
> package did not install a qtgl library, so I compiled the sip 2.5 and
> PyQt sources myself.  Everything went ok, except that I had to hand-edit
> the makefiles to include -lqt-gl (that's the debian name for the OpenGL
> Qt extension) along with -lqt.  All the demos run fine, but when I
> include
> 
> from qtgl import *
> 
> then I get a segfault (like in the gears examples).  I am new to python,
> so I don't know how to go about finding out where the problem is.  Any
> help would be appreciated.  I am using Linux with the latest 1.541
> NVidia drivers.  All my other OpenGL apps run fine.
> 
> Please cc me on replies, since I haven't received the notification that I'm
> subscribed to the list.  Thanks in advance for any help.

I haven't seen the problem before - I always run gears.py with a new
version of PyQt. The way Debian have split up the Qt library sounds very
dodgy.

Phil