[PyQt] Re: Deploying PyQt4 on Linux

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 27.06.09 01:37:11, Chris Hills wrote:
> On 25/06/09 11:30, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> No need for that, especially QTDIR is completely unknown to Qt4. That
>> variable simply doesn't exist anymore. You can adjust LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
>> poin to the Qt library, however you can also manage to do it without. Use
>> the RPATH and RUNPATH stuff when linking PyQt to your Qt, you'll have to
>> adjust the PyQt buildsystem for that I think and you probably want to make
>> sure that you use relative paths so your app can be installed anywhere on
>> the target system.
>
> For what it is worth, I have the following in  
> $QTDIR/mkspecs/common/g++.conf:-
>
> QMAKE_RPATH             = -Wl,-enable-new-dtags  
> -Wl,-rpath,\\\$$$$ORIGIN:\\\$$$$ORIGIN/../lib:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.2/lib 
> -Wl,-rpath,
>
> Whilst this works fine when building regular Qt apps, it gets mangled  
> when building PyQt4 so it does not work as intended, no doubt due to the  
> horrible escaping required.

Well, you'd have to teach PyQt4's configure.py to read QMAKE_RPATH and
use it, else its no wonder the PyQt4 modules have no RPATH.

Andreas

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