Mysterious error from Pip

[willrogers]

[Note: I have a similar setup to #486, with a somewhat complex and non-standard build.]

In my GitHub Action, I get the following log, which I do not understand:

Building wheel...

      + rm -rf /tmp/cibuildwheel/built_wheel
      + mkdir -p /tmp/cibuildwheel/built_wheel
      + pip wheel /project -w /tmp/cibuildwheel/built_wheel --no-deps
  ERROR: No .egg-info directory found in /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-focvdlqs
  Processing /project

I previously had this Travis config to build wheels, but I can no longer run it:

https://github.com/atcollab/at/blob/7a42dc1c498f9d78c671ac5fc2a1e6487ef462dc/.travis.yml

Although the build mechanism is somewhat convoluted the error seems unrelated. It may be in Pip or Setuptools but I cannot reproduce it elsewhere.

[henryiii]

Do you have a pointer at the log? There was a bad release of setuptools (51.3.0) that could cause this, it was fixed about an hour later, though, so you'd have to have gotten really lucky if that was the problem.

[willrogers]

Can you see it? https://github.com/willrogers/at/runs/1729259986?check_suite_focus=true

51.3.3 this time, but I have been trying to upgrade setuptools and pip and have seen this on multiple Python versions too.

Some more logging:

    _ _       _ _   _       _           _
 ___|_| |_ _ _|_| |_| |_ _ _| |_ ___ ___| |
|  _| | . | | | | | . | | | |   | -_| -_| |
|___|_|___|___|_|_|___|_____|_|_|___|___|_|

cibuildwheel version 1.7.4

Build options:
  platform: 'linux'
  before_all: ''
  before_build: 'pip install --upgrade setuptools; pwd; ls -al; ls -al /project'
  before_test: None
  build_selector: BuildSelector('*' - 'cp27-* pp27-* cp35-* pp35-*')
  build_verbosity: 0
  dependency_constraints: DependencyConstraintsPosixPath('/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.9/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cibuildwheel/resources/constraints.txt'))
  environment: ParsedEnvironment([])
  manylinux_images: {'x86_64': 'quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_x86_64:2020-12-30-3161d69', 'i686': 'quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_i686:2020-12-30-3161d69', 'pypy_x86_64': 'pypywheels/manylinux2010-pypy_x86_64:2020-12-11-f1e0e80', 'aarch64': 'quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64:2020-12-30-68d3257', 'ppc64le': 'quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_ppc64le:2020-12-30-68d3257', 's390x': 'quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_s390x:2020-12-30-68d3257'}
  output_dir: PosixPath('wheelhouse')
  package_dir: PosixPath('.')
  repair_command: 'auditwheel repair -w {dest_dir} {wheel}'
  test_command: None
  test_extras: ''
  test_requires: []

Here we go!

Starting Docker image quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_x86_64:2020-12-30-3161d69...
                                                             ✓ 23.77s
Copying project into Docker...
                                                              ✓ 0.16s

Building cp36-manylinux_x86_64 wheel
CPython 3.6 manylinux x86_64

Setting up build environment...
                                                              ✓ 0.12s
Running before_build...

      + sh -c 'pip install --upgrade setuptools; pwd; ls -al; ls -al /project'
  Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /opt/_internal/cpython-3.6.12/lib/python3.6/site-packages (51.1.1)
  Collecting setuptools
    Downloading setuptools-51.3.3-py3-none-any.whl (786 kB)
  Installing collected packages: setuptools
    Attempting uninstall: setuptools
      Found existing installation: setuptools 51.1.1
      Uninstalling setuptools-51.1.1:
        Successfully uninstalled setuptools-51.1.1
  Successfully installed setuptools-51.3.3
...
Building wheel...

      + rm -rf /tmp/cibuildwheel/built_wheel
      + mkdir -p /tmp/cibuildwheel/built_wheel
      + pip wheel /project -w /tmp/cibuildwheel/built_wheel --no-deps
  ERROR: No .egg-info directory found in /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-focvdlqs
  Processing /project

[YannickJadoul]

Maybe try setting CIBW_BUILD_VERBOSITY to 1 or 2? That should give some more indication of what's happening.

[willrogers]

Thank you, that was enough for me to figure out the problem, which is on my side. Hopefully I can fix it now.