pyqtdeploy-sysroot fails with SIP 6.0.0

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Jan 10 14:46:02 GMT 2021


I think I've already answered yes to that.

Phil

On 10/01/2021 13:41, Grant Sloman wrote:
> 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


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