<html><head></head><body>Hi Phil,<div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">I downloaded SIP 5.0.0 and tried to install it with Python 3.8. It’s unfortunate not trivial because —help is broken:</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ sip-install --help</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sip-install: pyproject.toml: unable to parse file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'pyproject.toml'</span></div><div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Nov 2019, at 11:49, Phil Thompson <<a href="mailto:phil@riverbankcomputing.com" class="">phil@riverbankcomputing.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""/>On 10/11/2019 10:44, FX wrote:<br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear Phil,<br class=""/><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class="">The real exception is the traceback starting at line 1499. This<br class=""/>implies that 'make install' is failing but pip discards the relevant<br class=""/>information.<br class=""/>I'd suggest using sip-install, as the docs state, at least while you<br class=""/>work out what the problem is.<br class=""/></blockquote><br class=""/>Many thanks. I indeed saw in the doc that "The recommended method of<br class=""/>building PyQt5 from source is to unpack the sdist and use SIP’s<br class=""/>sip-install program.” but there is no example given on how<br class=""/>“sip-install” should be used. Could your provide a link to detailed<br class=""/>steps of how this should be done?<br class=""/></blockquote><br class=""/>Any example would be trivial. Unpack the sdist, change to the directory<br class=""/>and run sip-install. Use --help to see all the options.<br class=""/><br class=""/>Phil<br class=""/>_______________________________________________<br class=""/>PyQt mailing list <a href="mailto:PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com" class="">PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com</a><br class=""/><a href="https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt" class="">https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt</a><br class=""/></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""/></div></body></html>