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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 <modulename> (eg -l kdecore) will rebuild only the module specified; -l <modulename>: +(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> + +<DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER"> +<HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"> +<TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" > +<TR> +<TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="trouble.html" ACCESSKEY="P">Prev</A></TD> +<TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H">Home</A></TD> +<TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="examples.html" ACCESSKEY="N">Next</A></TD> +</TR> +<TR> +<TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Troubleshooting</TD> +<TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top"> </TD> +<TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">Class Reference Documentation</TD> +</TR> +</TABLE> +</DIV> + +</body> +</html> |