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1.1.0.post2 fails to build: LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version for '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pyclipper-1.1.0_p2/work/pyclipper-1.1.0.post2'. #24

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pacho2 opened this issue Sep 15, 2019 · 1 comment

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@pacho2
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pacho2 commented Sep 15, 2019

I get this error:
python2.7 setup.py build
Development mode: Compiling Cython modules from .pyx sources.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 97, in
cmdclass=cmdclass,
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 143, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 442, in init
k: v for k, v in attrs.items()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in init
self.finalize_options()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 601, in finalize_options
ep.load()(self, ep.name, value)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools_scm/integration.py", line 23, in version_keyword
dist.metadata.version = get_version(**value)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools_scm/init.py", line 144, in get_version
parsed_version = _do_parse(config)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools_scm/init.py", line 111, in _do_parse
"use git+https://github.com/user/proj.git#egg=proj" % config.absolute_root
LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version for '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pyclipper-1.1.0_p2/work/pyclipper-1.1.0.post2'.

Make sure you're either building from a fully intact git repository or PyPI tarballs. Most other sources (such as GitHub's tarballs, a git checkout without the .git folder) don't contain the necessary metadata and will not work.

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@jayvdb
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jayvdb commented Oct 15, 2019

This might be related to pypa/setuptools-scm#357

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