[PyKDE] sip/PyQt 3.9

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 11 December 2003 6:41 pm, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:55:36 +0000
> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [ .. ]
>
> > > RPATH is meant to help ld.so, but ld.so is never(?) used, because
> > > Python loads the appropriate modules (abused as libraries).
> > >
> > >
> > > What did change? The module loading with Python-2.3 (but PyQwt worked
> > > with sip-3.8 and Python-2.3 without the RPATH magic) or sip?
> >
> > configure.py builds the sip module in-site then installs it (so you don't
> > have to be root). build.py built it in site-packages. That's the most
> > obvious difference.
> >
> > Can you try hacking siplib/Makefile so that it builds in site-packages
> > (and remove it from the install target) to see if that makes a
> > difference? If it does I'll revert to the previous behaviour (but not for
> > SIP4 as it isn't affected by this).
>
> With a few patches I manage to build out of place (install after building)
> without the RPATH magic: sip-3.9, PyQt-3.9 and a PyQwt (no install
> necessary to run the examples).
>
> The trick was to add -Wl,-soname$(TARGET) to LFLAGS.
> Is there any distro that dares to touch LFLAGS_SONAME :-)
>
> Attached you'll find build-scripts and patches to see what I have done.
> (Python-2.3.2 lives in /home/packer/usr/bin, so prefix=/home/packer/usr)

The changes should be in tonights snapshots.

Thanks,
Phil