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+><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0">
+<TR><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center">Python Bindings for KDE (PyKDE-3.16.0)</TH></TR>
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+<h1>configure.py Options</h1>
+<p>
+PyKDE builds and installs in a lot of different environments and it isn't always possible to
+foresee where users or distributions will locate components that PyKDE depends on. There are
+a number of command line switches used to force configure.py to look in the correct locations for
+directories or files.
+</p>
+<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<pre CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING">
+python configure.py -h
+
+Usage:
+ python configure.py [-h] [-c] [-d dir] [-g] [-j #] [-k] [-n dir] [-o dir] [-r] [-u] [-v dir] [-z file]
+where:
+ -h displays this help message
+ -c concatenates each module's C/C++ source files [default]
+ -d dir where the PyKDE modules will be installed [default /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages]
+ -g always release the GIL (SIP v3.x behaviour)
+ -i no concatenation of each module's C/C++ source files
+ -j # splits the concatenated C++ source files into # pieces [default 1]
+ -k dir the KDE base directory
+ -n dir the directory containing the KDE lib files
+ -o dir the directory containing the KDE header files
+ -r generates code with tracing enabled [default disabled]
+ -u build with debugging symbols
+ -v dir where the PyKDE .sip files will be installed [default /usr/share/sip]
+ -w turn on KDE deprecated object warnings when compiling [default off]
+ -z file the name of a file containing command line flags
+
+If reporting errors, paste all of the output above into your
+message and post to the PyKDE mailing list at:
+
+ mailto: PyKDE@mats.imk.fraunhofer.de
+ subscribe: http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
+
+You can redirect the output into a file (> output.txt) if needed
+
+</pre>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p>
+NOTE: In the descriptions below "Default" is a "typical" value for common distributions <b>and
+may not be the complete path needed</b>. You should always specify the complete path.
+configure.py searches a number of locations in looking for the appropriate directories,
+which may depend on the distribution used, where the version of Python used to run
+configure.py is located, and other factors. For example, a default value of "python/site-packages"
+could be "/usr/lib/python/site-packages", "/usr/local/python2.3/site-packages" or other values
+depending on how and where Python is installed or which of several installed versions of Python
+is used to run configure.py. configure.py will not try to complete the path for switch specified paths -
+you <b>must</b> specifiy the complete path (eg /usr/lib/python/site-packages or ../kdecore)
+</p>
+<p>
+For "normal" installations, configure.py will automatically discover all of the information covered by
+the options below -- it is only necessary to use the options switches when configure.py can't discover
+a location by itself.
+</p>
+<hr>
+<dl>
+<dt><b>-c Concatenation</b></dt>
+<dd>
+Building PyKDE involves loading a large number of cpp and h files. The compile process can be speeded up
+considerably (by as much as 80%) by concatenating all of the cpp files into a one (or several - see -j) large
+cpp file. The price for this speed up is a large increase in memory usage. By default, the feature is
+'on' in configure.py. To turn this feature off, use '-i'. You may wish to turn this off if the system doing
+the compile has 128MB or less RAM.
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-d Installation directory</b></dt>
+<dd>
+<table width = "100%"><tr>
+<td width = "20%"><u>Value:</u> directory path</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+<td width = "40%"><u>configure.py Default:</u> python/site-packages/</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+</tr></table>
+Normally, the PyKDE modules are installed in python/site-packages. Writing to this directory requires
+root access. RPM builders sometimes need to build the modules to a different directory, or you may want
+to install the modules in a different location (for example, in a subdirectory of site-packages/). For this
+option to be useful, you need to ensure that Python can still locate and import the PyKDE modules from
+the specified destination.
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-g Always release GIL (sip 3.0 behaviour)</b></dt>
+<dd>
+This is a code generation option that only affects sip 4.0. It causes sip to generate C++
+whose threading behavior is more like sip 3.0.
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-i NO Concatenation</b></dt>
+<dd>
+This option causes configure.py to generate C++ code and makefiles that compile many small file
+one at a time (rather than one huge file for each module). This increase compile time by about
+80%, but reduces memory consumption. See -c above.
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-j # of splits of concatenated files</b></dt>
+<dd>
+<table width = "100%"><tr>
+<td width = "20%"><u>Value:</u> number of splits </td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+<td width = "40%"><u>configure.py Default:</u> 1</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+</tr></table>
+Intended for use on multi-CPU systems. Splits the concatenated cpp file into the specified number
+of segments, each of which can be compiled concurrently in separate threads. On single processor
+systems, each "split" will compile in sequence. The kdeui module is (with concatenation active)
+is split into two pieces by default to reduce memory consumption. Values for 'j' greater than
+2 will be honored correctly.
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-k KDE base directory</b></dt>
+<dd>
+<table width = "100%"><tr>
+<td width = "20%"><u>Value:</u> directory path</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+<td width = "40%"><u>configure.py Default:</u> kde3/</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+</tr></table>
+The top level directory under which kde3/libs and kde3/include are located (these paths can also
+be specified independently see -n and -o) On SuSE distributions, this is typically /opt/kde3. On
+Red Hat and Mandrake, this is typically /usr. configure.py will find the typical locations automatically.
+configure .py will use the KDEDIR environment variable value if it is defined and the -k switch is NOT used.
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-n KDE library files</b></dt>
+<dd>
+<table width = "100%"><tr>
+<td width = "20%"><u>Value:</u> directory path</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+<td width = "40%"><u>configure.py Default:</u> kde3/libs</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+</tr></table>
+The path to KDE's library files (libkdecore.so, etc).
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-o KDE h files</b></dt>
+<dd>
+<table width = "100%"><tr>
+<td width = "20%"><u>Value:</u> directory path</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+<td width = "40%"><u>configure.py Default:</u> kde3/include</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+</tr></table>
+The path to KDE's h files. (May require installation of kdelibs3-devel rpm package)
+configure.py. PyKDE will locate h files in subdirectories of this path automatically (eg kde3/include/kio/*.h)
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-r generate code with tracing enabled</b></dt>
+<dd>
+For debugging
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-u debugging symbols</b></dt>
+<dd>
+For debugging
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-v PyKDE sip files</b></dt>
+<dd>
+<table width = "100%"><tr>
+<td width = "20%"><u>Value:</u> directory path</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+<td width = "40%"><u>configure.py Default:</u> /usr/share/sip/</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+</tr></table>
+The path where the PyKDE sip files will be copied (for use by programs that use sip binding
+dependent on PyKDE)
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-w KDE deprecation warnings</b></dt>
+<dd>
+KDE marks a number of methods as 'deprecated'. The methods marked will generate warnings
+at compile time. By default, PyKDE's configure.py turns these warnings off. -w will turn
+them on.
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-z Path to configure.py options file</b></dt>
+<dd>
+<table width = "100%"><tr>
+<td width = "20%"><u>Value:</u> filename or path</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+<td width = "40%"><u>configure.py Default:</u> none</td>
+<td width = "20%"> </td>
+</tr></table>
+If your site requires the use of more than one or two option switches, you can place all of the options
+in a text file and then reference only the text file's path and name on the command line. The options
+are placed in the text file just as they would be on the command line, with one option per line.
+For example, the options file for the command "python configure.py -c- -v /usr/local/PyQt/sip" would look
+like:
+<h4><u>options.txt</u></h4>
+<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<pre CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING">
+-c
+-v /usr/local/PyQt/sip
+</pre>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p></p>
+and would be run as "python configure.py -z options.txt" (assuming options.txt is in the current directory).
+</dd>
+<hr>
+<dt><b>-l (lower case L) code gen control -- not displayed with -h</b></dt>
+<dd>
+If for some reason you need to rebuild a PyKDE module but not all of PyKDE, you can use -l.
+-l &lt;modulename&gt; (eg -l kdecore) will rebuild only the module specified; -l &lt;modulename&gt;:
+(eg -l kdecore:) will rebuild the module specified and all successive modules. If changes are
+made that affect linking (especially deleting methods or other symbols), you must use the
+":" form, since later modules depend on earlier modules.
+</dd>
+</dl>
+
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