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' "

Also see past questions about prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel, like
https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2021-November/044370.html
and https://riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2019-November/042313.html
. More generally,
https://www.google.com/search?q=prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel+site:riverbankcomputing.com

I don't know much about Python and Pip, so I won't be much help.

Jeff