Victor, Thanks a bunch! Issue closed! It saved my day! The FIX: "sudo yum install -y libffi-devel", fixed the 3.7.3 compile error!
Have a great day! Carlos -----Mensagem original----- De: Victor Stinner <[email protected]> Enviada em: terça-feira, 2 de julho de 2019 07:26 Para: Charalampos Stratakis <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Assunto: [Python-Dev] Re: 3.7.3 Compile error on CentOS 7 (but 3.6.8 Compiles OK) FYI I also created an issue to suggest to avoid ctypes to get the glibc version in pip ;-) https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6675 In the past, we reported multiple times issues to pip when ctypes is not avialable (for different reasons), but it seems to be a lost battle: ctypes is commonly used (directly by pip, or by pip dependencies), so instead we try to ensure that ctypes is built on buildbots. Victor Le 02/07/2019 à 11:12, Charalampos Stratakis a écrit : > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Victor Stinner" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 10:41:40 AM >> Subject: [Python-Dev] Re: 3.7.3 Compile error on CentOS 7 (but 3.6.8 >> Compiles OK) >> >> Hi, >> >> Le 02/07/2019 à 06:22, [email protected] a écrit : >>> I am trying to compile Python 3 on Centos7 and I am getting >>> "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'" >> >> I'm not sure that you are asking on the right mailing list. Anyway. >> >> Red Hat provides precompiled Python 3.6 for Centos 7: >> https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-python36/ >> >> About your error, you likely miss some header files, like libffi-devel: >> >> sudo yum install -y libffi-devel > > That issue has been reported some times before as well at bpo. > > Maybe providing a proper error message for the missing libffi headers would > be good, as the current one is quite cryptic. > >> >> Victor >> -- >> Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send >> an email to [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/M >> ERA4UA2KLZJVQ7IEMNYOTD7FCSZY24I/ >> > -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2UF4RQHQHF4DZ4XI2K4VT7KJMKIZM6GL/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LPZEY7SR2QKIKKMUNTLIJ3LA3PXOHNWC/
