[PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13

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Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:16:27 -0400, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I just upgraded the OS on a computer at work to fedora 13, and I am
>>> attempting to install sip and pyqt4 from source (since the versions
>>> provided by the package manager are surprisingly out of date.) When I
>>> run "python configure.py", I get the following:
...
>> configure.py is checking to see if QT_SHARED is defined (the blank line in
>> the output implies it is not). The .pro it creates for qtdirs contains a
>> workaround for "certain" broken distros to make sure it is set properly.
>> Maybe the workaround no longer works.
>
> I found some bug reports/discussion that might be relevant:
>
> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-2098
> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-9110?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
>
> from https://svn.zib.de/lenne3d/tools/cmake/2.4.5/Modules/FindQt4.cmake :
>     # warning currently only qconfig.pri on Windows potentially
> contains "static"
>     # so QT_SHARED might not get defined properly on Mac/X11 (which
> seems harmless right now)
>     # Trolltech said they'd consider exporting it for all platforms in
> future releases.
>
>
> I tried also to find how the fedora devs managed to patch and build
> pyqt in the fedora environment, but I can't find anything. Aren't they
> compelled by the terms of the GPL to make such patches available?

On Fedora, if you download the source package, you get the patches too.