[PyQt] Crosscomping sip with a sip.cfg file

[Philip Balister]

I get sip_module_dest_dir not defined when running configure. Should I
add it to sip.cfg?

Philip

On 09/08/2018 07:31 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2018, at 12:25 pm, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/08/2018 04:39 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
>>> On 6 Sep 2018, at 8:10 pm, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm updating the recipe in OpenEmbedded to the recent release. I am
>>>> running into an issue where the python parts are ending up in the build
>>>> sysroot, not the image. So the packaging doesn't pick up the python
>>>> parts of sip.
>>>>
>>>> I create a sip config with required paths, the line I see in the
>>>> generated sip.cfg is:
>>>>
>>>> sip_module_dir =
>>>> /home/balister/opensdr/sdr-build-master-qemu/build/tmp-glibc/work/core2-64-oe-linux/sip/4.19.12-r0/image//usr/lib/python%(py_major).%(py_minor)/site-packages
>>>>
>>>> which is where I want to the the sip module end up, but after config,
>>>> compile etc I see this in sipconfig.py:
>>>>
>>>> 'sip_module_dir':
>>>> '/home/balister/opensdr/sdr-build-master-qemu/build/tmp-glibc/work/core2-64-oe-linux/sip/4.19.12-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt5',
>>>>
>>>> Which is not where I need the module installed.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas? This has worked in the past.
>>>
>>> Difficult to say without more context. Also I'd suggest you try the current snapshot.
>>
>> I tried the head of the Hg repo and had the same issue.
>>
>> In the end, this patch on top of the tarball helps. Still puzzling over
>> getting PyQt5 going again though.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is correct, but the PyQT5 sip.so ends up where I
>> think it should.
> 
> Can you try the attached patch to the current snapshot/repo?
> 
> Phil
>