[PyKDE] PyQt / sipdistutils

[Giovanni Bajo]

Jasper R. Plaisier <plaisier at chem.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:

> I have now worked around the problem in a quick and dirty way by copying
> sipdistutils.py to pyqtdistutils.py and changing the code in
> _sip_compile to the following
>
>    def _sip_compile(self, sip_bin, source, sbf) :
>      import pyqtconfig
>      pqconfig = pyqtconfig.Configuration()
>      os.system(" ".join([sip_bin,
>                  "-c", self.build_temp,
>                  "-b", sbf,
>                  "-I", pqconfig.pyqt_sip_dir,
>                  pqconfig.pyqt_qt_sip_flags,
>                  source]))

You could also derive a new class and re-implement just the _sip_compile
method.

> This works fine. HOwever, I had te change the self.spawn call to
> os.system, because the first would stop on the error:
>
> sip: /usr/share/sip/qt/versions.sip:30: Exactly one of this %Timeline
> must be specified with the -t flag
>
> The -t flag is present (and shown on the screen).

What's the exact value (repr) of pqconfig.pyqt_qt_sip_flags? How did your
modified self.spawn() call look like?
-- 
Giovanni Bajo