The problem

The configure script for pyqt/pyqwt tries too hard to find out where the libraries are located and fail because of our "alternative" organization.

The solution

We decided to use SCons and builds to compile pyqt and it worked just fine (until now).

The SConstruct script follows our projects format, using builds20 stuff.

Generating sources

The sources files are generated by the sip tool. We had to find out the parameters to sip (from the configure.py) and reproduce the process.

Compiling

Just a few flags, copied from the configure.py, and it worked fine. Changes where made to the qt4, pyqt4 and pyqwt5 shared-scripts to support the compilation, but nothing extravagant.