[PyQt] changes to sip.py breaking py2app recipe

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Fri Nov 16 23:44:56 GMT 2007


On Friday 16 November 2007, Scott Willman wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 1:10 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk>
>
> wrote:
> > On Friday 16 November 2007, Scott Willman wrote:
> > > I'm trying to debug the py2app recipe that handles sip on the mac. From
> > > what I see, it appears to be looking for:
> > >
> > >  sipconfig.Configuration(). qt_lib_dir
> > >
> > > However, this attribute doesn't appear to exist anymore (that I can
> >
> > find).
> >
> > > If it has indeed changed, is this information stored in another
> >
> > attribute
> >
> > > somewhere else?
> >
> > from PyQt4 import pyqtconfig
> > pyqtconfig.Configuration().qt_lib_dir
>
> Fixed! When it fully works, I'll see if the author of py2app will update it
> for the masses.
>
> > > Also, it's looking for a environment variable called
> > > 'DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH' that I don't seem to have set. I don't see any
> > > other env vars that would contain what that it seems to be looking for.
> > > Can anyone fill in the
> >
> > blanks
> >
> > > here?
> >
> > It contains the list of additional directories searched by the loader for
> > shared libraries. Nether SIP nor SIP generated code needs it - but
> > libraries
> > being wrapped by SIP might, depending on where they are installed (but
> > that's
> > a problem for those libraries).
> >
> > It sounds like that recipe is for SIP v3.
> >
> > Phil
>
> There must be central place where these paths are listed. One of the
> elements it cannot find is QtCore.so. While that's easy enough to find, it
> would still be good to find where it's path is stored so as not to hardcode
> anything. Any ideas what replaced the DYNLD_LIBRARY_PATH env var?

Nothing replaced it - it's still valid. My point is that a correct setting is 
a problem for the Qt installation, not the PyQt installation.

Phil


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