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<div class="">I am trying to get an ocean turbulence model (<a href="http://www.gotm.net" class="">www.gotm.net</a>) running on my Mac. The GUI is specified as requiring Qt4 and PyQt4, so I downloaded the last release of Qt4 from the archive
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Which I ran as a normal Mac installer and it reported a successful installation.</div>
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I also downloaded the last PyQt4 release from archive <a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">http://www.riverbankcomputing.<wbr class="">com/software/pyqt/download</a></div>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt4/PyQt-4.11.3/PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3.tar.gz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3.tar.gz</a><br class="">
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When I start the installation<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> with the --verbose flag set, I get:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">Air-2010:PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3 brianscannell$ python configure-ng.py --verbose</span></p>
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Querying qmake about your Qt installation...</p>
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Determining the details of your Qt installation...</p>
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/usr/bin/qmake -spec macx-g++ -o <a href="http://qtdetail.mk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">qtdetail.mk</a> <a href="http://qtdetail.pro/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">qtdetail.pro</a></p>
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make -f <a href="http://qtdetail.mk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">qtdetail.mk</a></p>
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g++ -c -pipe -O2 -arch x86_64 -Xarch_x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -Wall -W -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/local/Qt4.8/mkspecs/<wbr class="">macx-g++ -I. -I/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.<wbr class="">framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/usr/include/QtCore
-I/usr/include -I. -F/Library/Frameworks -o qtdetail.o qtdetail.cpp</p>
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g++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-Xarch_x86_64’</p>
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failed</p>
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make: *** [qtdetail.o] Error 1</p>
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Error: Failed to determine the detail of your Qt installation. Try again using</p>
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the --verbose flag to see more detail about the problem.</p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">I am not a developer, so in all honesty, I don't understand what the message is telling me, but it seems to have found the Qt4.8 but is
throwing a hissy fit about </font><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">‘-Xarch_x86_64’ </span><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">in
the command line. Clearly it is something about the hardware architecture, but after that I'm at a loss.</font></p>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">Any suggestions on what I need to do to get PyQt installing?</span></p>
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<div class="">Thanks, Brian</div>
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