[PyQt] Building PyQt4 on Mac 10.6.3 -- python configure.py fails

[Robin M Baur]

Hi Jeba,

Glad you got your install working. Actually, although we got similar
errors, I'm not sure we had the same problem. See below...

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:49, Jebagnana Das <jebagnanadas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
>      I was the poster of the thread you mentioned.. Though i could not
> "install" PyQt 4 on my Mac OS X 10.6.4 (phew.. i was really tired of trying
> all possible ways)i found a workaround.. I copied the PyQt4 folder from
> another Mac machine which is running on OS X 10.5.6 and pasted into my
> site-packages folder with all the QtGui.so,QtCore.so and other files..

[snip]

> Regards,
> Jeba
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:22:20 -0400
>> From: Robin M Baur <rmb62 at cornell.edu>
>> To: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
>> Subject: [PyQt] Building PyQt4 on Mac 10.6.3 -- python configure.py
>>        fails
>>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I'm having difficulty building PyQt4 on my system...

[snip install details]

>> Arcane:PyQt-mac-gpl-4.7.3 rmbaur$ python configure.py --verbose

[snip most of output]

>> Generating the C++ source for the QtCore module...
>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/sip" -k
>> -o -P -x VendorID -t WS_MACX -x PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug -t Qt_4_6_2 -x
>> Py_v3 -g -a QtCore.api -c QtCore -b QtCore/QtCore.sbf -I
>> /Users/rmbaur/Python setup/PyQt-mac-gpl-4.7.3/sip /Users/rmbaur/Python
>> setup/PyQt-mac-gpl-4.7.3/sip/QtCore/QtCoremod.sip

Here's the offending line from the output of python configure.py. It
turns out that some idiot (cough) made a directory with a space in the
name, which wasn't escaped in the call to sip. Renaming the directory
from /Python setup/ to /Python-setup/ allowed sip to find the files
and PyQt installed with no further problems.

-- Robin