[PyKDE] SIP-4.0rc1 minor build /install issues

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 11 December 2003 8:38 pm, Jon Dyte wrote:
> Hi
> I've been building SIP-4.0rc1 without Qt.
>
> I get this failure on make install despite supplying -b and -d on the
> command line eg python configure.py -b /sw/sip4 -d /sw/sip4/python2.3 -x
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jon/sip-4.0rc1/siplib'
> cp -f sip.so /sw/sip/python2.3/sip.so
> cp -f sip.h /usr/include/python2.3/sip.h
> cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/include/python2.3/sip.h': Permission
> denied make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/sip-4.0rc1/siplib'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
>
> I fixed this by altering configure.py
> at line 711
> 	elif opt == "-d":
>             opt_sipmoddir = arg
> 	    opt_sipincdir = arg + "/include"
>
> this puts the sip headers in an include directory below whereever the -d
> option was specified. I'm not sure if this is the best way to fix this or
> not, but certainly there will be cases where people cannot install into the
> python directory tree.

Use the -e flag. The reason you didn't notice it is because it's missing from 
the help text.

> On Solaris I found that regardless of whether -x was specified the build
> still barfed if QTDIR wasnt set. In the end I set QTDIR to /zzzzzz to make
> the error go away.
>
> Also on Solaris I had to make the sipSetBool function in qtlib.cpp be
> declared extern "C" else the module would complain about missing symbols
> when being imported. This might be due to my python build on Solaris or the
> version of CC (4.2) installed. (That particular CC is also missing a bool
> type which I had to define to get the file to compile as well). It looks
> like a name mangling issue anyhow.

Should be fixed in tonight's snapshot.

Is there a "standard" way of handling the case where the C++ compiler doesn't 
support the bool type?

Phil