Hi Simon, On Sunday 10 August 2003 15:04, Simon Edwards wrote: > Hello all, > > I just managed to build a RPM of PyKDE for Mandrake 9.1 with a big > helping of Hans-Peter's patches.
:-) > It was fairly involved since first I had to make RPMs of sip 3.7, and > then update the PyQT RPMs and build, but something went wrong and I > thought it was my out dated qscintilla install (1.0), of course there > was no up-to-date RPM of qscintilla on Mdk9.1 so _then_ I went and > updated and built it. Now where was I... oh yeah. I got PyQt worked > out, then came the fight with PyKDE which was resolved when > Hans-Peter's mail showed up in KMail this morning. (Ok it wasn't Well, none of my patches is really _essential_ for build.py. It's rather a long overdue clean up with some useful extensions. Next step should be factoring out the common parts in build.py from all three projects, and form a common basic sip builder lib, with extensions for PyQt and PyKDE. This is common sense for all involved parties, BTW. > _that_ easy, I had to remake the build.py patch) But after a lot of > compiling everything seems to be working. What do you understand under "remake the patch". Didn't it apply? What changes where needed? I would be interested in a diff -u between your and my version. > * I had to hack my qconfig.h file locally (style stuff) to get PyQt > working. Qt configure suck rocks. > * "Build as non-root" is vital for packagers BTW. The whole magic is the possibility to build into an independant dir. > * If anyone wants to try out my (collection of) RPMs, I can put it > all up on a website. You may ask Jonathan Gardner for enabling your sf.net account to maintain the mandrake packages on sf. Packaging is an important part of any successful project. Cheers, Pete _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
