How did you build PyQt5 on ppc64le?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 6:54 AM <c.buhtz at posteo.jp> wrote:
>
> regarding to this page and my own tests it seems that you where able to
> build PyQt5 on ppc64le architecture.
>
> This feels like magic to me because even the upstream maintainers are
> not able to do it. See https://github.com/PyQt5/PyQt/issues/150
>
> I also asked at upstream how to do it:
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2022-September/044898.html
>
> Errors like this occur
> "AttributeError: module 'sipbuild.api' has no attribute
> 'prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel' "
>
> It would be great and really helpful if you could provide some
> informations and hints about how did you build the python3-pyqt5
> package for ppc64le architecture.

Hi Christian. I may be mistaken, but I believe the package is part of
Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bullseye&arch=ppc64el&searchon=names&keywords=pyqt5
. Ubuntu gets it for free because Debian and John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
do the heavy lifting .

The Debain PowerPC mailing list is at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ . It is a very active list.
There are lots of PowerPC fans who hang out there.

Jeff