[PyKDE] PyQt4 compilation failure: location of specs?

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 03 April 2006 4:43 pm, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't find a way to tell configure.py (in PyQt4, latest snapshot) where
> my specs file are located. In my Qt 4.1 installation (RPM by Suse), specs
> files are installed into /usr/share/qt/mkspecs. PyQt4's configure detects
> "qt_dir" as "/usr" (because qmake is located in /usr/bin/), so it tries to
> look for spec files in /usr/mkspecs.
>
> I tried exporting a QMAKESPEC env with an absolute path. This works only in
> half: configure.py uses os.join.path and correctly finds and parses the
> spec file, but the installed sipconfig.py knows nothing of QMAKESPEC, so
> when it comes to generating the Makefile adding an include directory for
> the qplatformdefs.h, it doesn't look in the environment and simply uses
> qt_dir + "mkspecs" (which ends up being /usr/mkspecs).
>
> I'm missing some pieces of information. How does qmake locate its spec
> files? Can't PyQt4 use the same algorithm so to workaround these problems?

Does Suse set the QMAKEPATH environment variable?

Once you build PyQt4, what the output of running...

print QLibraryInfo.location(QLibraryInfo.DataPath)

Phil