[PyKDE] SIP-4.0rc1 on Mac OS X with Fink's qt3-3.2.3

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 29 December 2003 5:21 pm, dan at tombstonezero.net wrote:
> I'm trying to get PyQt up and running under Mac OS X 10.2.8, but
> can't get past configuring sip.
>
> I installed fink's qt3-3.2.3-2 and restarted my shells to get
> qt3's environment variables QTDIR and QMAKESPEC.
>
> I downloaded sip-4.0rc1 from
> http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/download/sip/sip-4.0rc1.tar.gz,
> unpacked it, ran
>
>     python configure.py -b ~/local/bin -v ~/local/share/sip
>
> and got this error:
>
>     Error: /sw/share/qt3/mkspecs/darwin-g++/qmake.conf: macro
>     'QMAKE_LIBDIR/$(TARGET1)' is not defined.
>
> I get the same error with the 2003-12-26 sip snapshot, and
> regardless of the options I specify (which makes sense).
>
> Since I'm still in the experimentation stages with qt3, I'm not
> picky about whether I get an Aqua or an X version running.  Am I
> better off uninstalling fink's qt3 and just building my own Aqua
> version from source?  Can both versions co-exist?

The fink version of Qt must have messed around with the qmake.conf file 
because that macro doesn't appear in the normal Qt distribution.

> I found a lot of information about getting sip 3.2 up and running
> under Mac OS X, but nothing about 4.0rc1.

The information about SIP v3.2 is bogus. Current SIP v4 snapshots should build 
the Aqua version out of the box.

Phil