[PyKDE] Runtime issues on SuSE 8.1

[Eron Lloyd]

Hello all,

I'm finally starting to work with PyQt, using the wonderful book by Boudewijn 
Rempt, and I can't seem to get the first example (hello1.py) to work. I 
apologize if this is the most basic, most obvious problem, but here is my 
dilemma:

SuSE 8.1 comes with PyQt & SIP 3.3.2, and Qt 3.0.5, which installed fine. I 
can import the qt module into the current namespace, and see all the objects. 
However, as soon as I try to instantiate a QApplication(sys.argv), I get a 
segmentation fault (with no error codes or anything). So next I download PyQt 
& SIP 3.4, and build from source against SuSE Qt3. Everything compiles 
beautifully, and I can from the Python shell again load the Qt module and 
touch all the classes. However, the minute I try to create a QApplication 
instance by passing it a list, it segfaults. Now, I trust the quality of 
Boudewjin's code, but I wanted to test another app just in case. So I tried 
to call eric, and got the same thing. Has anyone gotten PyQt to run 
successfully on SuSE 8.1? I've got gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.2.5 (out of the box). 
I'm no C++ coder, much less a real strong Python coder, so I can't really 
provide much more information...I hope this is helpful though. PyQt looks 
excellent, and I'm really excited about developing some applications, so I 
guess this is just a part of the learning process :-). I'll await your 
instruction from here.

Thanks,

Eron
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