[PyKDE] sip/PyQt 3.9

[Phil Thompson]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 5:55 pm, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> (rpm) build $subject refuse to cooperate on Suse 9.0.
>
> Building them with configure.py works fine (even a RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> is doing fine with simple DESTDIR= redirections).
>
> Unfortunately it failed to execute such a sequence (reconstructed):
>
> import libsip	# OK
> import libqtc	# results in:
> ImportError: libsip.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
>
> A bit of stracing showed, that libsip.so isn't lookup'ed correctly,
> which could be related to /usr/lib/python/site-packages not existing
> in /etc/ld.so.conf. Shouldn't this being resolved automatically?

Yes - and it is for me.

What does make -n look like for PyQt?

> As a q&d workaround, I mangled PyQts Makefiles with rpath:
>
> for i in `find . -name Makefile -type f -print`; do
>   sed -e "s|^LFLAGS = -shared$|LFLAGS = -shared
> -Wl,-rpath,%{python_site}|g" $i > $i.new if ! cmp -s $i $i.new; then
>     mv $i.new $i
>   else
>     rm $i.new
>   fi
> done
>
> before make and now, ldd resolves libsip correctly:
>
> ldd /usr/lib/python/site-packages/libqtcmodule.so
>         libsip.so => /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsip.so
> (0x40799000) libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0x407c6000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40eeb000)
> [...]
>
> While most simple PyQt scripts play fine now, eric-3.3 complains with:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/eric3/eric3.py", line 135, in ?
>     mw = UserInterface(loc)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/UI/UserInterface.py", line 305, in
> __init__ File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/UI/LogView.py", line 341,
> in addTab File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/UI/LogView.py", line 58,
> in __init__ SystemError: error return without exception set
>
> Something isn't playing nice here, any ideas?

I can reproduce this, so I'll have a look.

Phil