[Pythonmac-SIG] SIP 4.9 building error on Mac

[William Kyngesburye]

Works for me with system python 2.5 on Leopard and 2.6 on Snow, and python.org 
  Python 2.6 on Leopard.  Though I didn't try 64bit on Snow.

Maybe somehow an old sipconfig got imported?  Try removing the old  
installed SIP.

I had this problem in the dev version right after the option was added  
(I'm the cause of the new options, to support differing combinations  
of 32/64bit Qt and 32/64bit Python :), but it eventaully fixed itself  
- I was trying a lot of different things at the time, but I think  
cleaning out old SIPs did the trick.

On Sep 26, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Derek Ruths wrote:

> I've just downloaded SIP 4.9 and discovered that building it fails  
> on my Mac with the error below.  I've verified that "arch" is not  
> currently a named argument accepted by ProgramMakefile in  
> sipconfig.py, causing the error.  I'm emailing the list to notify  
> others and in the hope that this can get quickly taken care of.   
> Thanks!
>
> 	D
>
> This is SIP 4.9 for Python 2.6.2 on darwin.
> The SIP code generator will be installed in
> /Library/Frameworks/OryxPython.framework/Versions/2.6/bin.
> The SIP module will be installed in
> /Library/Frameworks/OryxPython.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/ 
> site-packages.
> The SIP header file will be installed in
> /Library/Frameworks/OryxPython.framework/Versions/2.6/include.
> The default directory to install .sip files in is
> /Library/Frameworks/OryxPython.framework/Versions/2.6/share/sip.
> The platform/compiler configuration is macx-g++.
> MacOS/X binaries will be created for ppc, i386, x86_64.
> MacOS/X universal binaries will be created using
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk.
> Creating sipconfig.py...
> Creating top level Makefile...
> Creating sip code generator Makefile...
> An internal error occured.  Please report all the output from the  
> program,
> including the following traceback, to support at riverbankcomputing.com.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "configure.py", line 459, in <module>
>    main(sys.argv)
>  File "configure.py", line 450, in main
>    create_makefiles(macros)
>  File "configure.py", line 275, in create_makefiles
>    arch=opts.arch
> TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'arch'
> make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> make: *** [build_sip] Error 2
>
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