[PyQt] Centos 7 attempt to build PyQt5 5.12 - PyQt5.sip not found

[Phil Thompson]

On 13/03/2019 21:16, Barry wrote:
>> On 13 Mar 2019, at 19:26, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 13/03/2019 18:46, Barry Scott wrote:
>>>> On 11 Mar 2019, at 20:05, Kyle Altendorf <sda at fstab.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 2019-03-11 15:30, Barry Scott wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to build PyQt5 with QScintilla from source on Centos 
>>>>> 7.6.
>>>>> These are the steps I use:
>>>>> tar xf sip-4.19.14.tar.gz
>>>>> cd sip*
>>>>> python3.6 configure.py
>>>> http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html#downloading-sip
>>>> Note the note about `--sip-module PyQt5.sip`.
>>> Doh! I even have the that link book marked.
>>> The docs say to do this:
>>>    python configure.py --sip-module PyQt5.sip --no-tools
>>> But --no-tools means that there is not /usr/bin/sip installed or 
>>> sip.h
>>> so the build PyQt5 fails in configure.py as it needs both.
>>> The --no-tools needs to be removed I think.
>> 
>> Update your bookmark, that’s out of date documentation. I’ll get 
>> around to removing it at some point.
> 
> If this is wrong what is the right one?
> 
> http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html
> 
> I looked on your riverbankcomputing.com and did not find a install
> guide, what did i miss?

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html

Phil