[PyQt] Installing PyQt 5 on Mac OS X (10.6.8 Snow Leopard) - Patch v3

[Phil Thompson]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:42:39 +0100, Anzir Boodoo <ab at transcience.co.uk>
wrote:
> Phil,
> On 28 Jun 2013, at 17:39, Phil Thompson wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:20:24 -0500, William Kyngesburye
>> <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>>> Though I see now what you mean by those lines in configure.py -
whatever
>>> you give for --spec will be overridden by that 'darwin' if block.  And
>> if
>>> it isn't macx-xcode it defaults to whatever Qt5 was compiled with,
>> probably
>>> clang++.
>> 
>> This patch should actually work.
> 
> Thanks... it's *still* giving the same response, except when I
> accidentally knocked something else in configure.py and generated a
syntax
> error (so at least I am editing and running the same file - phew!) - I
> wonder if something else is pointing to clang++?
> 
> When I changed
> 
>> if qt_config.QMAKE_SPEC == 'macx-xcode':
>>                     # This will exist (and we can't check anyway).
>>                     self.qmake_spec = 'macx-clang'
> 
> to
> 
>> if qt_config.QMAKE_SPEC == 'macx-xcode':
>>                     # This will exist (and we can't check anyway).
>>                     self.qmake_spec = 'macx-llvm'
> 
> 
> it didn't work either
> 
> I'm now trying to follow through what configuration.py is doing... it
> seems my default Qt is still 4.7.4, but I should be pointing PyQt 5 at
Qt
> 5. running 'qmake -query' using the Qt 5 qmake shows that
> 'QMAKE_SPEC:macx-clang' and 'QMAKE_XSPEC:macx_clang'. 
> 
> Then there is this (in configuration.py)
> 
>>         # The default qmake spec.
>>         if self.py_platform == 'win32':
>>             if self.py_version >= 0x030300:
>>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc2010'
>>             elif self.py_version >= 0x020600:
>>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc2008'
>>             elif self.py_version >= 0x020400:
>>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc.net'
>>             else:
>>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc'
>>         else:
>>             # Use the Qt default.  (We may update it for MacOS/X
later.)
>>             self.qmake_spec = ''
> 
> so that's where self.qmake_spec is coming from (until it gets set to
> 'macx-clang' later on), and I'm setting opts.qmakespec through the
command
> line, which is overwriting self.qmake_spec - so that *should* work, but
> somehow doesn't ...
> 
> Maybe I should just go with Qt 4.8 and PyQt 4.8 for the moment - I've
got
> to the end of my ability to figure this out again...

I tested the patch and there was no mention of clang in any Makefile.

Maybe try with tonight's snapshot so you don't need to do any patching.

Phil