[PyQt] dist-info fails when using DESTDIR

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Jul 1 16:36:35 BST 2018


On 1 Jul 2018, at 3:07 pm, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> 
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Phil Thompson wrote:
>> 
>>> PyQt v5.11 and SIP v4.19.9 have been released. There are corresponding
>>> releases of PyQt3D, PyQtChart, PyQtDataVisualization and PyQtPurchasing.
>> 
>> Found another build failure, fails when not using --no-dist-info along
>> with 'make install DESTDIR=...'
>> 
>> /usr/bin/python2 mk_distinfo.py /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-
>> packages/sip-4.19.9.dist-info installed.txt
>> unable to create /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sip-4.19.9.dist-info
>> 
>> This step seems to not take DESTDIR into account.
> 
> This problem persists with latest sip-4.19.11

Works fine for me.

However there may be an issue with the contents of the RECORD file in the .dist-info directory as I assume it should reflect where the package will eventually be installed.

Phil


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