[PyQt] Installing PyQt 5 on Mac OS X (10.6.8 Snow Leopard) - Patch v3

[Anzir Boodoo]

Phil,
On 28 Jun 2013, at 17:39, Phil Thompson wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:20:24 -0500, William Kyngesburye
> <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>> Though I see now what you mean by those lines in configure.py - whatever
>> you give for --spec will be overridden by that 'darwin' if block.  And
> if
>> it isn't macx-xcode it defaults to whatever Qt5 was compiled with,
> probably
>> clang++.
> 
> This patch should actually work.

Thanks... it's *still* giving the same response, except when I accidentally knocked something else in configure.py and generated a syntax error (so at least I am editing and running the same file - phew!) - I wonder if something else is pointing to clang++?

When I changed

> if qt_config.QMAKE_SPEC == 'macx-xcode':
>                     # This will exist (and we can't check anyway).
>                     self.qmake_spec = 'macx-clang'

to

> if qt_config.QMAKE_SPEC == 'macx-xcode':
>                     # This will exist (and we can't check anyway).
>                     self.qmake_spec = 'macx-llvm'


it didn't work either

I'm now trying to follow through what configuration.py is doing... it seems my default Qt is still 4.7.4, but I should be pointing PyQt 5 at Qt 5. running 'qmake -query' using the Qt 5 qmake shows that 'QMAKE_SPEC:macx-clang' and 'QMAKE_XSPEC:macx_clang'. 

Then there is this (in configuration.py)

>         # The default qmake spec.
>         if self.py_platform == 'win32':
>             if self.py_version >= 0x030300:
>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc2010'
>             elif self.py_version >= 0x020600:
>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc2008'
>             elif self.py_version >= 0x020400:
>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc.net'
>             else:
>                 self.qmake_spec = 'win32-msvc'
>         else:
>             # Use the Qt default.  (We may update it for MacOS/X later.)
>             self.qmake_spec = ''

so that's where self.qmake_spec is coming from (until it gets set to 'macx-clang' later on), and I'm setting opts.qmakespec through the command line, which is overwriting self.qmake_spec - so that *should* work, but somehow doesn't ...

Maybe I should just go with Qt 4.8 and PyQt 4.8 for the moment - I've got to the end of my ability to figure this out again...

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