Is there a pip command line option for a debug build PyQt6_sip?

[John Ehresman]

I ended up scripting the unpacking of the tarball, updating setup.cfg and then building. PyQt6_sip uses setuptools as the build backend. The base sip project also uses setuptools and has the same issue; I had already automated the updating of setup.cfg for sip but had forgotten that I did. I wasn’t able to find a general solution for setuptools based projects.

John

> On Jul 27, 2023, at 1:14 PM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On 27/07/2023 17:56, John Ehresman wrote:
>> I’m able to build a debug / pydebug build of PyQt6_sip by unpacking
>> the .tar.gz, adding [build]\ndebug=true to setup.cfg, and then using
>> pip install with the directory name.
>> Is there an option to pass to pip install when using the .tar.gz to
>> set debug to true? I use a script to build and would rather just add a
>> command line argument than to script the unpacking, editing, etc.
>> I’ve noticed that some packages such as pillow now default to debug
>> builds if pip is run with a debug build of python — to use win32
>> command names, python.exe -m pip install builds/installs a release
>> build and python_d.exe -m pip install builds/installs a debug build.
> 
> The sip-* frontends all support a '--debug' flag. If you are using pip you can pass the flag via a pip flag (sorry I can't remember the details off the top of my head).
> 
> Phil