Hi! Adding libffi and zlib solves the problem, similar to python-minimal@3.
Go for it? :-) Ludo’.
>From 1cb73a54813136632553f03063abdd5cd105a760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 22:10:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: python-minimal@2: Add dependencies on libffi and zlib. * gnu/packages/python.scm (python2-minimal)[inputs]: Add LIBFFI and ZLIB. [arguments]: Remove. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index be452f062..00598776a 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm @@ -359,11 +359,12 @@ data types.") (package (inherit python-2) (name "python-minimal") (outputs '("out")) - (arguments - (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments python-2) - ((#:configure-flags cf) - `(append ,cf '("--without-system-ffi"))))) - (inputs '()))) ;none of the optional dependencies + + ;; Keep zlib, which is used by 'pip' (via the 'zipimport' module), which + ;; is invoked upon 'make install'. 'pip' also expects 'ctypes' and thus + ;; libffi. + (inputs `(("libffi" ,libffi) + ("zlib" ,zlib))))) (define-public python-minimal (package (inherit python) -- 2.12.0
