[PyQt] sip snapshot problem with PyQwt

[Phil Thompson]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:33:38 +0100, "Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj at urpla.net>
wrote:
> Hi Phil, hi Gerard,
> 
> in an attempt to build PyQwt with the current sip snapshot
(c38668e9dd93), 
> sip fails with a strange error:
> 
> /usr/bin/sip -I /usr/share/sip/PyQt4 -b tmp-qwt5qt4/qwt5qt4.sbf -c
> tmp-qwt5qt4  
>  -x VendorID -t WS_X11 -x PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug -t Qt_4_7_1 -x Py_v3 -g 
>  -x HAS_PYQT_031105 -x HAS_QWT4 -x HAS_QWT_SVG -t Qwt_5_2_0
>  ../sip/qwt5qt4/QwtModule.sip
> sip: No %Module has been specified for module defined in
> /usr/share/sip/PyQt4/QtSvg/QtSvgmod.sip
> SIP failed to generate the C++ code.
> 
> The PyQwt package is also a snapshot build, all files are available
here:
> 
>
https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=python-qwt5&project=home%3Afrispete%3APyQt-next
> 
> The sip files (from PyQt-x11-gpl-snapshot-4.8.2-634f8a2612bf) are
> installed 
> properly and /usr/share/sip/PyQt4/QtSvg/QtSvgmod.sip looks fine to my 
> untrained eye:
> 
> cat /usr/share/sip/PyQt4/QtSvg/QtSvgmod.sip 
> // QtSvgmod.sip generated by MetaSIP on Thu Nov 11 03:43:29 2010
> //
> // This file is part of the QtSvg Python extension module.
> //
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> <info at riverbankcomputing.com>
> // 
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> 
> 
> %Module PyQt4.QtSvg 0
> 
> %Import QtCore/QtCoremod.sip
> %Import QtGui/QtGuimod.sip
> 
> %Copying
> Copyright (c) 2010 Riverbank Computing Limited
> <info at riverbankcomputing.com>
> 
> This file is part of PyQt.
> 
> This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public
> License versions 2.0 or 3.0 as published by the Free Software
> Foundation and appearing in the files LICENSE.GPL2 and LICENSE.GPL3
> included in the packaging of this file.  Alternatively you may (at
> your option) use any later version of the GNU General Public
> License if such license has been publicly approved by Riverbank
> Computing Limited (or its successors, if any) and the KDE Free Qt
> Foundation. In addition, as a special exception, Riverbank gives you
> certain additional rights. These rights are described in the Riverbank
> GPL Exception version 1.1, which can be found in the file
> GPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package.
> 
> Please review the following information to ensure GNU General
> Public Licensing requirements will be met:
> http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/opensource/. If
> you are unsure which license is appropriate for your use, please
> review the following information:
> http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/licensingoverview
> or contact the sales department at sales at riverbankcomputing.com.
> 
> This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
> WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
> %End
> 
> %DefaultSupertype sip.simplewrapper
> 
> %Include qgraphicssvgitem.sip
> %Include qsvggenerator.sip
> %Include qsvgrenderer.sip
> %Include qsvgwidget.sip
> 
> 
> OTOH, the rest of the project (including PyKDE4!) is building just fine 
> with the current sip and PyQt4 snapshots:
> 
>
https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=home%3Afrispete%3APyQt-next
> 
> Do you have an idea, what's going wrong or how to debug such an issue? 

There have been changes to the parsing of %Module. One change is that
%Module is now affected by %If/%End. Could that be the source of the
problem?

> It might be Gerards fault, but the error looks pretty strange.
> 
> While at it, I noticed, that you added a way to suppress the header 
> timestamps in sip. While this is goods news (may loose one ugly patch in

> my builds, that ensures the results of unchanged rebuilds to be exactly
> equal). However, in order to make use of this, it is necessary to be
able
> to specify this option in PyQt4 builds (or even better, globally disable
> it in sipconfig.py, unless somebody actively enables it..).

So you need a similar option to PyQt's configure.py?

Phil