I'm having some issues attempting to build PyQT4 and matplotlib. I'm on a 64-bit machine and am trying to build a 32-bit version. I have already installed seperate 32-bit libs and a 32-bit version of python however I continue to run into two basic problems
With PyQT4, I dont know how to tell it that I want to compile 32bit. I run into a problem at the very beginning when it runts qtdirs.mk and there -m32 isnt there. I tried adding it in and manually running make, but then I have the second problem with matplotlib and PyQT4, eventhough the "-m32" flag is being used with g++ and /usr/lib is included in the library search path, I run into problems where I get a message saying something like: /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libz.so when searching for -lz then /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz I had this exact problem with a few modules while trying to build Python 32 bit, however I was able to substitude -lz with the full path to the library /usr/lib/libz.so.1 This would be impractical to do with matplotlib. This is also just one example, I have problems with other libraries too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
