[PyQt] PyQt on OSX Snow Leopard notes

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 13, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:

> I've added a --arch option to SIP's configure.py. It may be  
> specified any
> number of times. PyQt's configure.py will also use the information.
>
> I've added a --use-arch option to PyQt's configure.py to tell it to  
> use
> arch in the pyuic4 wrapper script. If there is a problem with
> /usr/bin/python then you should run configure.py using /usr/bin/ 
> python2.6
>
> The changes are in the current snapshots. Let me know if more needs  
> to be
> done.
>
(OK, earlier packaging finished up quickly.)

SIP --arch option - so far works OK.  I configured SIP with just -- 
arch=i386.

PyQt --use-arch - no good.  The config stage uses the default arch, so  
ends up trying to compile qtdirs with the default 64bit architecture,  
which of course fails.  Maybe it should use the SIP arch info for  
config test compilation?

I also noticed that it doesn't use SIP's default macros or platform  
(mkspec), but instead is hardwired to 'fix' qmake args to add -spec  
macx-g++.

I was able to get it past qtdirs by adding make overrides for CXX and  
LINK in the make command, adding arch flags (I couldn't figure out how  
to override these from qmake), but then there were a lot more config  
tests that failed for the same reason.

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