[PyQt] pyqt does not find phonon (from kde.org) at build time

[Phil Thompson]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:21:34 -0600, Matt Carlson <mcarlson1 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, I think I'm having the same problem described in the message below 
> (or at least a similar one). I tried using the latest stable source 
> package for PyQt 4.7 and also the latest development snapshot (as of 
> Feb. 28). With both installations, I get an import error when I try to 
> use phonon. It seems to be the same problem with configure.py. When 
> configure.py runs it does not list phonon when "creating the makefile" 
> and "generating the C++ source."
> 
> I'm not sure if the patch that solsTiCe included would fix my problem. 
> Using it is beyond my skill level. So, I searched around a little bit 
> more and found another person describing a similar problem with version 
> 4.6: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22370. This led me to try 
> installing version 4.5, which got phonon working for me. I'm not sure 
> exactly what this means, but I'm guessing someone else might.
> 
> Although version 4.5 should work fine for what I need to do, I spent a 
> while trying to figure out how to make 4.7 work. I checked (or tried to 
> check) if I had phonon installed with Qt, reinstalled some Qt libraries, 
> and tried listing phonon in the plugin configure.py option. It's very 
> likely this is still just a problem for me, but it seems like there's a 
> chance other people are still having this problem too. If anyone would 
> like to help me troubleshoot this, let me know what other information 
> you need. I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and Python 2.5.2.

Running configure.py with the --verbose argument will tell you why it's
failing to detect phonon.

Phil