pyqtdeploy-sysroot fails with SIP 6.0.0

[Phil Thompson]

On 10/01/2021 13:27, Grant Sloman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’ve installed the latest SIP (6.0.0) but I’m getting a
> pyqtdeploy-sysroot failure:
> "pyqtdeploy-sysroot: PyQt: SIP v5.4.0 or later is required.”
> 
> I think it’s due to this check in pyqtdeploy/sysroot/plugins/PyQt.py:
> 
>         if min_sipbuild_version.major != sipbuild_version.major or
> min_sipbuild_version > sipbuild_version:
>             self.error(
>                     "SIP v{} or later is required".format(
>                             min_sipbuild_version))
> 
> 5 isn’t equal to 6.
> Do I need to install an older version of SIP?

Yes, the error message is misleading.

Phil