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

[Matt Carlson]

Phil Thompson wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I ran configure.py with the --verbose argument. This is what I got:

Checking to see if the phonon module should be built...
g++ -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PHONON_LIB -I. -I/usr/mkspecs/linux-g++ 
-I/usr/include/qt4/phonon -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/X11R6/include -pipe 
-O2 -w -D_REENTRANT cfgtest_phonon.cpp -o cfgtest_phonon -L/usr/lib 
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lphonon -lXext 
-lX11 -lm -lpthread
cfgtest_phonon.cpp:1:30: error: phonon/VideoWidget: No such file or 
directory
cfgtest_phonon.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
cfgtest_phonon.cpp:5: error: expected type-specifier before ‘Phonon’
cfgtest_phonon.cpp:5: error: expected `;' before ‘Phonon’

So, I patched line 367 as described in the original message about this 
issue:

-        check_module("phonon", "Phonon/VideoWidget",
+        check_module("phonon", "phonon/videowidget.h",
                 "new Phonon::VideoWidget()")

That seemed to fix that problem, but then I got this error:

Generating the C++ source for the phonon module...
"/usr/bin/sip" -k -o -P -x VendorID -t WS_X11 -x PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug -t 
Qt_4_4_1 -x Py_v3 -g -a phonon.api -c phonon -b phonon/phonon.sbf -I 
/home/m/installation_files/PyQt-x11-gpl-snapshot-4.7.1-106919e3444b/sip 
/home/m/installation_files/PyQt-x11-gpl-snapshot-4.7.1-106919e3444b/sip/phonon/phononmod.sip
sip: QVariantList is undefined
Error: Unable to create the C++ code.

I searched around for things related to QVariantList, but am very lost 
on this one. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Matt