pip configparser error on osx

[adelavega]

  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable ... done
  Getting requirements to build editable ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build editable did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [26 lines of output]
      Error in sitecustomize; set PYTHONVERBOSE for traceback:
      AssertionError:
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 351, in <module>
          main()
        File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 333, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
        File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 132, in get_requires_for_build_editable
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 445, in get_requires_for_build_editable
          return self.get_requires_for_build_wheel(config_settings)
        File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 338, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
        File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 335, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 6, in <module>
        File "<string>", line 1800, in get_version
        File "<string>", line 1732, in get_versions
        File "<string>", line 396, in get_config_from_root
        File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.10.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/configparser.py", line 782, in get
          d = self._unify_values(section, vars)
        File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.10.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/configparser.py", line 1153, in _unify_values
          raise NoSectionError(section) from None
      configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'versioneer'
      [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 editable 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.

Issue reported by @nicoalee when trying to pip install from source on mac os x.

This was caused by #907 it looks like @effigies

[effigies]

Is this old pip? Need tomli installed, but that should be part of the build requirements.

[adelavega]

This was on pip 22.3.1 it looks like

[adelavega]

My guess was that it had to do w/ absolute vs relative paths, such as bids/_version.py, but my attempts to fix that didn't work.

[effigies]

I guess we can revert to a setup.cfg-based configuration. I don't understand why this would be an issue on OSX in particular, but I can't reproduce the issue on a Linux machine.

What version of setuptools is installed? The error seems to be starting there, with it calling setup() when pip is checking for Getting requirements to build editable.

[adelavega]

@nicoalee can you report which version of setuptools you had in this environment?

I can try to reproduce on a fresh macbook to see if this is a common problem, if I can borrow a mac.