[PyQt] private sip?

Kevin Mcintyre kebin70 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 01:51:36 BST 2018


I'm confused by this new requirement.

Does the --sip-module=PyQt5.sip get added to the python configure.py for
sip or for PyQt?

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 7:16 AM William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
wrote:

> I found it.
>
> Seems to be a silly requirement for PyQt5.  A problem is that sipconfig.py
> was not installed with a private sip, this will break things for me down
> the line.  Maybe a bug - it is created in the source and does have PyQt5 as
> the sip_module_dir.
>
> On Jul 1, 2018, at 3:10 AM, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 09:10:16PM -0500, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
> Sorry if this was answered already, I then missed it - I'm trying to build
> the latest PyQt5 5.11.1, but configure.py is complaining that it can't
> import PyQt5.sip:
>
> Error: Unable to import PyQt5.sip. Make sure you have configured SIP to
> create
> a private copy of the sip module.
>
> I don't see any option in sip (4.19.10) to build a "private" copy.
>
>
> Took me a moment as well to figure it out, but it's this option:
>
>  --sip-module=NAME     the package.module name of the sip module [default:
> sip]
>
> i.e., passing --sip-module=PyQt5.sip will build sip as PyQt5.sip.
>
> Florian
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