Fwd: Re: [PyQt] Segfaulting in PyQt-4.6

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

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Subject: Re: [PyQt] Segfaulting in PyQt-4.6
Date: Monday 19 October 2009, 11:53:03
From: jonathan noble <jonnobleuk at gmail.com>
To: "Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj at urpla.net>

I can confirm that the new Sip snapshot fixed my segfaulting issues. Cheers
guys!

2009/10/17 Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj at urpla.net>

> Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 schrieb jonnobleuk at gmail.com:
> > On Saturday 17 October 2009 11:57:15 Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 schrieb jonnobleuk at gmail.com:
> > > > I have a bit of a problem. My application worked fine in ver-4.5.*
> > > > but every time I start it in 4.6 the app fails to start and all I 
see
> > > > is
> > > >
> > > >     "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
> > > >
> > > > I've tried to debug the app in Eric IDE but all I get is
> > > >
> > > >     "The program being debugged terminated unexpectedly"
> > > >
> > > > Has anything critical changed between 4.5 and 4.6?
> > >
> > > Yes, a lot. Phil is on the way to get rid from QStrings and QVariants
> > > while supporting Py3 properly. You might try current snapshots.
> > >
> > > > How do I go about
> > > > debugging my application?
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, you did not told us your environment, which is
> > > significant for debugging. It boils down to enabling the debug options
> > > in sip and PyQt, and installing the debug symbol packages for Qt and
> > > Python.
> > >
> >
> > Cheers. That explains a lot. When you say "get rid of QStrings" does 
that
> > mean completely?
>
> Well, yes by default for Py3, but you can have them back, if you beg for
> ;-)
>
> > Env:
> > Funtoo x86
> > linux-2.6.31.4
> > qt-4.5.3
> > gcc-4.3.3
> > glibc-2.9
> >
> > or
> >
> > Ubuntu Karmic x86
> >
> > For some reason I haven't compiled with debug option enabled.
>
> Try snapshots first: "both" configure.py's takes a --debug switch, btw.
>
> Pete
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