`pip install numba==0.48` does not make `bin/numba` executable

Description

When installing the 0.48 version of numba via pip ( in an active virtual environment ) the numba executable placed in the bin/ folder of the venv will not have the executable flag set. Other versions I tested (0.47, both 0.49) do set the executable flag correctly.

OS

5.6.15-arch1-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Console log:

[parts removed for better readablitiy]

$ python3 -m venv testnumba
$ source testnumba/bin/activate
$ pip install numba==0.48
... [completed successfully] ...
$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
llvmlite   0.31.0 
numba      0.48.0 
numpy      1.18.4 
pip        19.2.3 
setuptools 41.2.0 
$ ls testnumba/bin/numba
-rw-r--r-- 1  numba

Note: I do know, that this issue is related to an older version of numba and should not be posted. However, that version is served via pypi and will not work correctly if installed. This issue seems to be new, as I have an old install of version 0.48 via pip which did set numba as executable. I do not even know, if it is possible to fix this problem “in place” for version 0.48.

Thanks.

[sklam]

I have uploaded new wheel builds that fixed the problem.

There were several issues coming from auditwheel and wheel packages from Python that is making this harder than expected:

• auditwheel repair does not respect --build-number: dropping the build-number and creating corrupted output
• wheel unpack does not respect the execution bit: unpacks without the execution bit set; thus creating the problem reported here.

[sklam]

Rebuilding wheel… buildfarm id: numba_wheel_19