[PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13

[Phil Thompson]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:34:28 -0400, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Baz Walter <bazwal at ftml.net> wrote:
>> On 30/09/10 16:24, Darren Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> any patches should be in fedora's src.rpm for pyqt, along with the
.spec
>> file for building the binary package.
>>
>> nb: you can extract the files from an rpm with rpm2cpio (or a gui
>> archiver
>> like file-roller).
> 
> Thank you for that.
> 
> I was able to build after applying this change:
> 
>      out << QLibraryInfo::licensee() << '\\n';
> 
> -#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL)
> +//#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL)
>      out << "shared\\n";
> -#else
> -    out << "\\n";
> -#endif
> +//#else
> +//    out << "\\n";
> +//#endif
> 
> 
> Phil, it looks like QT_SHARED is somewhat fragile, or rather, it
> doesn't seem that the qt devs intended to support it for this
> particular use case. Is its use necessary in PyQt's configure.py?

Yes it is necessary - but I could add a flag to configure.py to override
the value detected.

> Based on the change required to build on Fedora, it doesn't seem so,
> but probably I'm overlooking its intended purpose.

The reason it doesn't work on Fedora is that Fedora have messed with the
Qt build. It's fine with a build from the Nokia sources.

Phil