[PyQt] PyQt compile failure

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Sep 6 22:25:53 BST 2009


On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:29:57 -0700, "Glenn Tarbox, PhD" <glenn at tarbox.org>
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:31:14 -0700, "Glenn Tarbox, PhD"
<glenn at tarbox.org>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to compile the latest snapshot of PyQt and got the compile
>> error
>> > below.
>> >
>> > I'm pulling Qt from the git repo, so I tried the 4.6 stable branch as
>> well
>> > as a previous PyQt snapshot (from 8/21).  4.6 stable is dated 8/30.  I
>> > think
>> > all combinations were tried but the failure is in the ScopedPointer
>> > stuff
>> > which is pretty new IIRC.
>> >
>> > It would be useful to know if PyQt is being tested against the Qt git
>> repo
>> > and, if so, what checkin.  Qt is a moving target so I realize there's
>> > trickiness.  In the past, I've found that in a few days time either Qt
>> > or
>> > PyQt has found and fixed bugs like this.
>>
>> PyQt is only ever tested against released versions of Qt.
>>
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> I do a fairly substantial amount of automated updating / building /
testing
> of Qt as it evolves.  PyQt is an integral component of my system and I
use
> it with the Mayavi2 tool suite integrated in Sage.
> 
> I'd be willing to forward any bugs like this if it helps... I could send
> them to the main PyQt list although it might be more noise than signal if
> I'm the only one working with the bleeding edge Qt repos.
> 
> I'll post them if you like, or send them somewhere else if you want a
heads
> up on issues I find.  Or not... let me know if you'd like these bug
> reports.

Thanks, but it wouldn't help. They are only bugs if they still exist when
the version of Qt is released.

Phil


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