[PyKDE] python 2.5 and pyKDE (was: compile error for pyqt)

[Jim Bublitz]

On Friday 24 November 2006 12:10, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 18:01 schrieb Jim Bublitz:
> > On Friday 24 November 2006 04:10, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 05:54 schrieb Jim Bublitz:
> > > > On Thursday 23 November 2006 17:40, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > > > However I came across another issue with PyKDE 3.17, it creates a
> > > > > symlink ln -s /usr/lib/kde3/libkonsolepart.so
> > > > > /usr/lib/konsolepart.so.  That's not very elegant, but presumably
> > > > > is there with good reason.  However it doesn't respect the DESTDIR=
> > > > > argument to "make install" meaning you can't install unless you are
> > > > > root, which causes problems in packaging.  Could it respect DESTDIR
> > > > > in future releases?
> > > >
> > > > kde3/lib/kde3 generally isn't visible for loading. I will change the
> > > > DESTDIR behavior, but the konsolepart support will be optional and
> > > > not default in the next release.
> > >
> > > Jim, this reminds me that you may want to add a switch to control this
> > > behavior. Even if DESTDIR is respected, its in the way when building
> > > rpm packages, since you cannot add symlinks to non existent targets in
> > > that package (to my humble knowledge). Therefore my spec contains:
> > >
> > > in %prep section:
> > > sed -i 's/if kde_version >= 0x030500/if 0 and kde_version >=
> > > 0x030500/g' \ configure.py
> > >
> > > %post
> > > [ ! -L /opt/kde3/lib/libkonsolepart.so ] && {
> > > ln -sf /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/libkonsolepart.so
> > > /opt/kde3/lib/libkonsolepart.so }
> > > %run_ldconfig
> > >
> > > %postun
> > > [ -L /opt/kde3/lib/libkonsolepart.so ] && {
> > >     rm -f /opt/kde3/lib/libkonsolepart.so
> > > }
> > > %run_ldconfig
> >
> > The only alternative I know of is to modify the user's ld.so.conf or
> > library path (which most distributions don't seem to use any more), and
> > both of those seem intrusive to me and if not done correctly could cause
> > major problems.
>
> Sorry for being too hazy. I've caught a strong flu and start getting my
> head straight again. I understand your problem, and yes, until the KDE
> people doesn't get this right, I don't see better way to solve this dilemma
> either.
>
> What I've meant is, you may want to add a switch to configure.py to
> suppress generation of this symlink altogether. For those, who are not
> fluent to sed, the above command simply does this the hard way..
>
> It's then in the responsibility of the packager to do this, if they care
> about konsole part functionality (along with a descriptive message about
> the consequences). As shown, it won't work this way for rpm at least.

Right - at the moment it's only required for konsolepart support, and that 
will be a non-default option in the future, since it's not supported 
uniformly by distributions. There are some other places the problem comes up 
in doing things like panel applets or similar extensions, but I don't see 
those being part of PyKDE itself anyway, so they're automatically optional.

Jim