[issue33374] generate-posix-vars failed when building Python 2.7.14 on Linux

Peter Senna Tschudin added the comment: I got here when trying to build Yocto Sumo on Fedora 28. python_native build was failing with a segfault. Here is how I fixed it with no elegance intended: $ git clone https://github.com/python/cpython.git $ cd cpython/ $ git show

[issue33374] generate-posix-vars failed when building Python 2.7.14 on Linux

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: New changeset 0b91f8a668201fc58fa732b8acc496caedfdbae0 by Benjamin Peterson (Florian Weimer) in branch '2.7': Indicate that _PyGC_Head is only 8-byte aligned. (closes bpo-33374)

[issue33374] generate-posix-vars failed when building Python 2.7.14 on Linux

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[issue33374] generate-posix-vars failed when building Python 2.7.14 on Linux

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[issue33374] generate-posix-vars failed when building Python 2.7.14 on Linux

Tom Grigg added the comment: I beleive this is caused by https://bugs.python.org/issue27987 in combination with GCC 8. Florian Weimer proposed a patch which is included in the Fedora build:

[issue33374] generate-posix-vars failed when building Python 2.7.14 on Linux

New submission from Piotr Dobrogost : When building Python 2.7.14 on Fedora 28 I get the following error: [piotr@demon]/tmp/Python-2.7.14% make (…) ./python -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars ;\ if test $? -ne 0 ; then \ echo "generate-posix-vars failed" ;