[PyQt] PyQt make error ubuntu 12.04

[David Boddie]

On Mon Feb 17 22:23:46 GMT 2014, Phil Thompson wrote:

> I only ever use Python built from python.org, I never use a distros
> version.
> 
> Can you run...
> 
> python -m sysconfig
> 
> ...and see if the correct directory shows up as one of the paths?

This doesn't print anything out. Should it? (I'm not trying to be obtuse
here, I don't follow the latest Python developments closely.)

This is what I get if I use the get_paths() function, which should
apparently show all the installation paths:

Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan  2 2013, 13:56:14) 
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sysconfig
>>> sysconfig.get_paths()
{'platinclude': '/usr/local/include/python2.7', 'platstdlib': 
'/usr/lib/python2.7', 'platlib': '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', 
'purelib': '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', 'stdlib': 
'/usr/lib/python2.7', 'scripts': '/usr/local/bin', 'include': 
'/usr/local/include/python2.7', 'data': '/usr/local'}

I'm guessing that this is wrong, at least for the "include" entry, so it
may be time to report a bug against the python2.7 package in Debian.

It seems that a workaround for Pablo would be to install Python from source,
then install sip and PyQt using that Python installation.

Unless someone else can suggest an alternative solution...

David