[PyKDE] New PyKDE snapshot

[Jim Bublitz]

I'm in the process of sending the latest PyKDE snapshot to Phil for posting on 
at http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/snapshots/PyKDE. It's 
snapshot20051013. It should be available within 24 to 48 hours.

The changes are:

Cleaned up sip files for gcc 3.4.x/4.0.x compatibility
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This should allow people using gcc 3.4.x or 4.0.x to compile and load PyKDE - 
the unresolved symbol problems should be fixed (except see below)

Replaced sipNewCppToSelf instances with sipBuildResult
Updated configure.py to use pyqtconfig.py for Qt environment info 
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These are for sip compatibility - PyKDE should now build with both previous 
and current (snapshot) versions of sip and PyQt.

Dropped kdesu (undefined symbol problem)
Added -fno-rtti to kdeprint compile
Dropped driver.sip from kdeprint
Backed out konsolepart code (undefined symbol problem)
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These are problems I ran into on SuSE 10. driver.sip was part of the gcc 
compatibility problem. kdesu and konsolepart have problems with unresolved 
symbols (at least with the SuSE 10 libs, but I suspect other libs as well). 
konsolepart was added by request this past summer, but there are fundamental 
problems resolving symbols. After fixing a few, I still got 
someClass::className() undefined errors for QObject derived classes - there's 
no way to prevent sip from generating this based on inheritance (and probably 
shouldn't be). It appears that KDE compile settings are optimizing out some 
symbols, which sip can't do. 

The same holds for kdesu, but I had an additional problem there where the 
kdesu.so lib was picking up a symbol from the h file that wasn't in the 
sip-generated files, and this symbol didn't exist in KDE's libkdesu. That 
might be fixable, but in the little stuff I've tried with kdesu, it didn't 
work very well from PyKDE, and I doubt it's in wide use. If someone really 
has an application for kdesu, let me know and I'll put some work into it. 
Otherwise, I'll probably drop the module entirely.

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I still have a number of bug fixes from the mailing list to incorporate, but 
I'd appreciate some feedback on problems compiling against gcc 3.4.x and 
4.0.x as soon as possible. This version will compile against KDE 3.4.2, but 
doesn't incorporate changes later than 3.4.1. I'll include 3.4.2 and 3.5 
changes in the final release.

I'll be out of town all day tomorrow (Friday here), but will be back online 
Saturday AM.

Jim