Build wheel failure during Python virtual environment library installation

[Marcus Jones]

Hi !

I'm trying to deploy QATrack+ on Ubuntu, and whilst following the installation process, I get to the step which installs the libraries needed for QATrack+ with PostgreSQL. Unfortunately, this results in a build wheel failure.

After entering the command: 

pip install -r requirements/postgres.txt

...the process fails with the following error message and trace:

 Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
 
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [29 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/home/marcus/venvs/qatrack31/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "/home/marcus/venvs/qatrack31/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/home/marcus/venvs/qatrack31/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-_13x4ymd/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 327, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-_13x4ymd/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 297, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-_13x4ymd/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 497, in run_setup
          super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-_13x4ymd/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 313, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 52, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-0h5f7toi/matplotlib_2df3abc497f24186921ee8a6e6497159/versioneer.py", line 1410, in get_version
          return get_versions()["version"]
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-install-0h5f7toi/matplotlib_2df3abc497f24186921ee8a6e6497159/versioneer.py", line 1344, in get_versions
          cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-install-0h5f7toi/matplotlib_2df3abc497f24186921ee8a6e6497159/versioneer.py", line 401, in get_config_from_root
          parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?
      [end of output]
 
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

Has anyone come across this problem during installation before? I can't see any similar reports in the Google group message archive.

Many thanks,

Marcus

[Kym Nitschke]

Hi Marcus,

I notice that you are running Python 3.12. The QA Track documentation recommends Python 3.9.

There have been some ‘recent’ changes to setuptools which could be the problem.

Kym

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[Marcus Jones]

Thanks Kym.

I did notice that there is only experimental support for 3.12 currently (things like Versioneer etc). 

I'll try with an older version.

Thanks, 

Marcus