pyqtdeploy-sysroot fails with SIP 6.0.0

[Grant Sloman]

Thanks Phil. So is the only way around the failure to downgrade to an older version of SIP?

Regards,
Grant

> On 10 Jan 2021, at 13:34, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> 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