Bug 316941

Summary:	Packaging breaks PyQt in various ways
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeremy Sanders <jss>
Component:	qt4	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jeremy Sanders 2007-10-03 14:48:55 UTC

Description of problem:

The qt4 packages breaks the building from source of PyQt4 (from source in
various different ways):

1. QT_SHARED is not defined when programs are compiled with qmake with the
shared libraries. (google for multiple issues about this).

2. There is no default directory in /usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/ so PyQt4 configure
can't find qmake.conf (as it is no longer under QT_DATA_DIR). Why has it been
moved to /usr/lib64/qt4/mkspecs/default? Why are there two directories for these
files?

3. The split of qconfig.h into different parts means that PyQt4 cannot check the
licence of qt (using the definition of QT_EDITION).

I'm not convinced the third is a real issue with the packaging, as PyQt should
probably be not trying to parse the header file.

I think the qt4 package should avoid breakage by fixing the QT_SHARED issue and
not putting the qmake files under /usr/lib64 (which seems a crazy place as it's
nothing to do with a library - is this LSB?).

If the location of the qmake files is not a bug, what is the standard mechanism
for locating them?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qt4-4.3.1-3.fc7

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 14:36:53 UTC

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 02:34:29 UTC

Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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