[PyQt] Building the QScintilla-1.73 PyQt4 bindings

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 26 November 2007, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to try out Eric4 and as Ubuntu has no packages for it (which is
> weird as PyQt4 is packaged) and thus ended up compiling some stuff. I got
> QScintilla-1.73 and built the Qt4 version without any problems, then I ran
> into some issues with the PyQt4 bindings:
>
> ~/download/QScintilla-1.73-gpl-2.1/Python$ python configure.py
> QScintilla 2.1 is being used.
> PyQt 4.3 is being used.
> Qt v4.3.2 free edition is being used.
> SIP 4.7 is being used.
> The QScintilla module will be installed in
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4.
> The QScintilla API file will be installed in
> /usr/share/qt4/qsci/api/python. The QScintilla .sip files will be installed
> in /usr/share/sip/PyQt4. Generating the C++ source for the Qsci module...
> sip: /usr/share/sip/PyQt4/QtCore/qbytearray.sip:103: syntax error
> Error: Unable to create the C++ code.
>
> This is what is executed when the failure comes:
>
> "/usr/bin/sip" -x VendorID -t WS_X11 -x PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug -t Qt_4_3_0 -g
> -a QScintilla2.api -I /usr/share/sip/PyQt4 -c . -b qsci.sbf
> sip/qscimod4.sip
>
> The stuff on that failed line (103) is:
>
> 102
> 103 %PickleCode
> 104     sipRes = Py_BuildValue((char *)"(s#)",
> sipCpp->data(),sipCpp->size()); 105 %End
> 106
> 107 public:
> 108     QByteArray();
>
>
> Distro:
> 	Kubuntu Gutsy, i386
>
> Python:
> 	Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct  5 2007, 13:36:32)
>
> g++:
> 	g++ (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
>
> Qt4:
> 	4.3.2-0ubuntu3.1 (from Ubuntu packages)
>
> PyQt4:
> 	Version: 4.3-2ubuntu7.1 (for Qt 4.3.2, from Ubuntu packages)
>
> PyQt4 itself works just fine. What more information should I include?
>
> Best regards,
>     Jan Ekholm

%PickleCode support was added to SIP 4.7, which implies your /usr/bin/sip is 
earlier. Run "/usr/bin/sip -V"

Phil