[PyQt] Build error with PyQt4 4.10 on Mac 10.7.5

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 21 May 2013 11:12:59 -0600, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>
wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:21:37 -0600, Larry Shaffer
>> <larrys at dakotacarto.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Trying to get the latest PyQt4 4.10 to build but running into this
>> > error
>> > [0].
>> >
>> > Using sip 4.14.5, Qt 4.8.4 on Mac 10.7.5 with XCode 4.5.1's default
>> > compiler (from command line).
>> >
>> > [0] http://pastebin.com/as5SkZMP
>>
>> You probably have a mismatch between the sip executable being used to
>> generate the code and the sip.h that the generated code #includes.
>>
> 
> Finally got back to this. Indeed the issue was a different header being
> included. I had (evidently) accidentally installed sip 4.14.0 in the Mac
> System path before (I usually prefix to /usr/local).
> 
> However, I did notice an issue when configuring/installing PyQt4, where
it
> did not seems to honor the configured .sip dest dir.
> 
> sip build configure:
> python2.7 configure.py -d /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages \
>   -b /usr/local/bin -e /usr/local/include -v /usr/local/share/sip
> 
> PyQt4 build configure:
> python2.7 configure.py -d /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages \
>   -b /usr/local/bin -n /usr/local/Qt4.8/qsci
> 
> The .sip files for PyQt4 were placed in:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/share/sip/PyQt4
> not:
> /usr/local/share/sip/PyQt4
> 
> specifically adding the following to the PyQt4 build configure line
worked:
> -v /usr/local/share/sip/PyQt4
> 
> This was with both configure.py and configure-ng.py. Shouldn't the .sip
> dest dir be picked up from sip as a default for building PyQt4?

Works fine for me with configure.py. It's not supposed to work with
configure-ng.py because it doesn't use the sipconfig.py module.

Phil