[PyQt] Regression in sip 4.7.4 "sip: QPixmap has not been defined"

[Phil Thompson]

On Sunday 13 April 2008, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 20:14 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 00:49 +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > > I said before you should reproduce the problem with the standard source
> > > packages, not your distro's packages. "-t Qt_3_3_8b" does not come from
> > > the standard source packages.
> > >
> > > Phil
> >
> > As we say in New York, "Akhaa!"  Thanks, that was exactly the clue I
> > needed.
> >
> > This wasn't the fault of the distro, but the software package.  Salomé
> > comes in a package with its own SIP, Ot, omniORB, NetGen, etc., and its
> > own set of default but non-standard build options.
> >
> > Removing the -t option you identified overcame the problem, now it works
> > with sip 4.7.4 in Debian, which should be faithful to the original.
>
> The whole thing builds now with -t Qt_3_3_6.
>
> And I identified the source of the Qt version in the sip command: Salomé
> gets it from QT_VERSION_STR in qglobal.h .  Debian's Qt has 3.3.8b.
>
> So naturally, I tried -t Qt_3_3_8 but that failed in the same way as
> before.
>
> This begs the question: given that Qt 3.3.8 was released on February 14,
> 2007, and SIP 4.7.4 was released on February 12, 2008, why does SIP not
> support a Qt version released nearly a year earlier?

Because Qt_3_3_6 does not refer to the version of Qt, it refers to the version 
of the Qt API. The Qt v3 API hasn't changed since Qt v3.3.6.

Phil