[PyQt] trouble installing pyqt4 from source on fedora 13

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Thursday 30 September 2010, 19:34:28 Darren Dale wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Baz Walter <bazwal at ftml.net> wrote:
> > On 30/09/10 16:24, Darren Dale wrote:
> >> I tried also to find how the fedora devs managed to patch and build
> >> pyqt in the fedora environment, but I can't find anything. Aren't they
> >> compelled by the terms of the GPL to make such patches available?
> >
> > any patches should be in fedora's src.rpm for pyqt, along with the
> > .spec file for building the binary package.
> >
> > nb: you can extract the files from an rpm with rpm2cpio (or a gui
> > archiver like file-roller).
>
> Thank you for that.
>
> I was able to build after applying this change:
>
>      out << QLibraryInfo::licensee() << '\\n';
>
> -#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL)
> +//#if defined(QT_SHARED) || defined(QT_DLL)
>      out << "shared\\n";
> -#else
> -    out << "\\n";
> -#endif
> +//#else
> +//    out << "\\n";
> +//#endif
>
>
> Phil, it looks like QT_SHARED is somewhat fragile, or rather, it
> doesn't seem that the qt devs intended to support it for this
> particular use case. Is its use necessary in PyQt's configure.py?
> Based on the change required to build on Fedora, it doesn't seem so,
> but probably I'm overlooking its intended purpose.

It's important to decide, in which way PyQt and subsequent projects should 
link to Qt in order to allow for both static and shared builds.

Those obstacles are usually the result of the distro packagers messing 
around with the package in question. And yes, Qt's build system, based on 
qmake, is somewhat fragile in general, no question about that.

    As a humble guess, Qt5's build system will be based on CMake.

We will see.
Pete