[PyKDE] PyQt - undefined symbol

[Erik Dahlgren]

sip -V yields

3.5 (build 57)

I am compiling PyQt from PyQt-x11-gpl-3.5. I looked at the dates in 
site-pakages and as far as I could tell all the ones related to qt had todays 
date (the 18th). When running ldd on libqtcmodule.so there is no reference to 
libpython of any kind. For libsip.so.9 it says not found. Is this a problem? 
How do I solve it if so?

Thanks
Erik

On Friday 18 April 2003 10:22 pm, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On 19-Apr-03 Erik Dahlgren wrote:
> > I am trying to install PyKDE 3.5-2 but I am having some problems.
> > When running the build.py script  I get
> >
> > Error: Couldn't import qt module from PyQt -- from line 725 in
> > build.py
> >
> > When trying to import qt  in python I get
> >
> > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libqtcmodule.so:
> > undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode
> >
> > I didn't have any problems when installing PyQt (at least I don't
> > think so). My system is RH8 mostly updated to RH9 with qt and
> > kde compiled from Red Hat source rpms.  I have qt 3.1.2-0.8x.1
> > and kde 3.1.1-0.8x.1
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated!
>
> You definitely have a problem with PyQt (or less likely Python).
> PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode is a symbol from the Python libs and
> should be there in any 2.2 version. The likeliest source for this
> kind of problem is some kind of version mismatch or older libs
> still around. Check that sip and PyQt were compatible versions (eg
> sip 3.5 and PyQt-x11-gpl-3.5), that you don't have older versions
> of PyQt in /usr/lib/python2.2./site-packages (check the dates), run
> sip -V to see what sip version you're building with. As a last
> resort you can do:
>
>     ldd /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libqtcmodule.so
>
> and see where it thinks it's going to find libpython.
>
> Also, if you built PyQt and/or sip from the snapshots, PyKDE at
> present won't build, but you haven't reached the point yet where
> you'd have that problem. build.py is failing when it tries to
> import qt to do some testing/discovery.
>
> It would help to know what sip and PyQt versions you're using, but
> the problem is with your PyQt installation. You should be able to
>
> run the Python interpreter and do:
> >>> import qt
>
> and my guess is that that will fail also.
>
> Jim

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