[PyQt] PyQt installation

[Phil Thompson]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:21:33 +0100, Pablo Campomanes
<pblcampomanes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to install the latest stable version of PyQt in my computer
> (Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux 5).
> 
> First, I installed SIP from source code (sip-4.12.1.tar.gz) in a
> non-standard folder (/software/sip-4.12.1) using the following protocol
> based on configure, make and make install:
> 
>
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> python configure.py --bindir /software/sip-4.12.1/ \
> --destdir /software/sip-4.12.1 --incdir /software/sip-4.12.1/ \
> --sipdir /software/sip-4.12.1/ --static

Why use --static?

Phil