[PyKDE] pyqt needs rpath

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Sun Jan 11 21:57:01 GMT 2004


On Sunday 11 January 2004 6:20 pm, Neal Becker wrote:
> I just installed PyQt-x11-gpl-3.9 on my Fedora1 linux system.  It went OK,
> except that it linked to libsip without using -rpath.  Since the install
> dir, /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages is not on the normal dynamic link
> search path, nothing will work unless LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set
> to /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages to find libsip.
>
> Please:
> 1) Add -rpath
> 2) Tell me how I can do this.  The PyQt configure/build is pretty complex,
> so I don't know where/how to add this option.

What's the error message?

What version of SIP?

Did you use build.py or configure.py?

-rpath shouldn't be needed because the sip module is loaded by Python before 
any module it is linked against is loaded.

Phil




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