[PyKDE] Compiling PyKDE 3.11.3 on Solaris 8 fails

[Holger Joukl]

Just a short update:
I managed to compile on my solaris machine now, here is the version summary
(a full description of the necessary config/tweaks will follow later on):

Solaris 8
gcc 2.95.2
PyKDE version 3.11.3
PyQt version is 3.13 (3.13.0)
sip version is 4.1.1 (4.1.1)
Python version is 2.3.4
Qt version is 3.3.3
KDE version is 3.3.2 (0x30302)

Now, when I run the uisampler example program, some things work fine but
others don´t:

$ python2.3 uisampler.py
...
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "xmlmenudemo.py", line 44, in ?
    from qt import QPopupMenu, SIGNAL, QLabel, QIconSet
ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file
/data/pydev/DOWNLOADS/PYQTKDE/build/lib/python2.3/site-packages/qt.so:
symbol PyUnicode_Type: referenced symbol not found

This happens e.g. if I try to launch the XML->KActionCollection.

Looking at my python interpreter says:
$ nm /apps/prod/bin/python2.3 |grep PyUnicode_Type
000fd158 D PyUnicode_Type
000d7fd0 R _PyUnicode_TypeRecords

Confusing. Finally I looked at the sample python code in
uimodules/uixml.py:
...
def xmlKActionCollection (parent):
    parent.currentPageObj = PageLaunch (parent)
    os.system ("python xmlmenudemo.py")
...

And there it is: We have several python versions here and for reasons I
cannot
change at the moment the "unqualified" python must still link to python1.5.

 $ ll -i /apps/prod/bin/pyth*
 275644 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     other      547732 Aug  4  2000
/apps/prod/bin/python*
 275644 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     other      547732 Aug  4  2000
/apps/prod/bin/python1.5*
 325698 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other     1592778 Dec 13  2001
/apps/prod/bin/python2.1*
  77274 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other     2618910 Jul 23  2004
/apps/prod/bin/python2.3*

os.system ("python xmlmenudemo.py") invokes this out-of-date version
instead of the interpreter
I used to run the main program uisampler.py.
This even happens if I alias python to "python2.3" and, as I said, I cannot
not alter the link
to the new version python2.3.

Suggestion:
Why not use sys.executable instead of the literal "python" here:
...
def xmlKActionCollection (parent):
    parent.currentPageObj = PageLaunch (parent)
    os.system("%s xmlmenudemo.py" % sys.executable)
...

Anyway, thanks a lot for all the hints so far!


(@Pete who couldn´t resist: I know I know - blame my employer. Otherwise,
they
let me work with python, so I tend to overlook such minor annoyances...)

Greetings,
Holger



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