Error when building/packaging Pyside6 6.5.1.1

Stefan Scherfke

I get an error when building/packaging Pyside6 6.5.1.1 for Qt6 6.5.1. The build scripts worked for versions 6.4.3 and before but fail with the new version.

These are the last lines of output:

-- Build files have been written to: $SRC_DIR/build/qfp-py3.10-qt6.5.1-64bit-release/build/pyside-tools
[INFO]: -- Compiling module pyside-tools...
ninja: no work to do.
[INFO]: -- Skipped documentation generation. Enable with '--build-docs'
[INFO]: Installing module pyside-tools...
[0/1] Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "Release"
[INFO]: Using /opt/emsconda/bin/patchelf ...
[INFO]: Preparing setup tools build directory.
[INFO]: Removing /opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/work/build/qfp-py3.10-qt6.5.1-64bit-release/package
[INFO]: Copying files...
[INFO]: Making file /opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/work/build/qfp-py3.10-qt6.5.1-64bit-release/package/PySide6/scripts/__init__.py.
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/_h_env_placeh
old_pl/modules'
setup.py/prepare_packages:  [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '$PREFIX/modules'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/work/setup.py", line 42, in <module>
    setup_runner.run_setup()
  File "/opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/work/build_scripts/setup_runner.py", line 263, in run_setup
    raise RuntimeError(msg)
RuntimeError:·
setup.py invocation failed with exit code: 1.


setup.py invocation was: /opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/_h_env/bin/python setup.py install --prefix=/opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/_h_env --qtpaths=/opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/_h_env/bin/qtpaths --cmake=/opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/_h_env/bin/cmake --rpath=/opt/emsconda/conda-bld/pyside6_1686858905124/_h_env/lib --ignore-git --parallel=6 --no-qt-tools --skip-docs --internal-build-type=pyside6

I think the final error is setup.py/prepare_packages: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '$PREFIX/modules'

This is the build command:

$PYTHON setup.py install --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --qtpaths=$PREFIX/bin/qtpaths \
    --cmake=$PREFIX/bin/cmake \
    --rpath=$PREFIX/lib \
    --ignore-git \
    --parallel=${CPU_COUNT} \
    --no-qt-tools \
    --skip-docs

How can I debug the problem to find it's source? I cannot find the string(s) PREFIX/modules or even modules in the work dir, so I have no idea where to start looking.

I am using:

Python 3.10.11
Setuptools 67.6.1

Stefan Scherfke

I found the Problem.

I configured Qt6.5 with

 -bindir $PREFIX/bin \
 -libdir $PREFIX/lib \
 -headerdir $PREFIX/include/qt6 \
 -archdatadir $PREFIX/lib/qt6 \
 -datadir $PREFIX/share/qt6 \

This caused the modules (and metatypes) directories to be created under $PREFIX/share/qt6/....

However, setup scripts of Pyside6 are hardcoded to use LIB_DIR.parent / "modules" which does not work.

I removed the config flags in Qt and it worked.