Michael Felt added the comment:
If I removed you from nosy - purely accidental - probably because you answered
and I still had a dialog open with you not in it.
My apologies in any case. I'll be more careful should something like that
happen again.
I am aware of the
Zachary Ware added the comment:
You removed me from the nosy list, so I didn't see your reply until now when I
happened to refresh the tab that happened to still be open :)
The warning I was talking about in that message was a warning that libffi was
found but is
Michael Felt added the comment:
no. I'll install what I have atm.
Too bad - as now it will have an install dependency.
re: https://bugs.python.org/issue27976#msg274628 -- seems a warning that libffi
is not available might be useful after all.
Question: is ffi still
Zachary Ware added the comment:
Do you have libffi (and its development headers) installed where the compiler
can find it? Python 3.7 no longer bundles a copy of libffi (see #27979).
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nosy: +zach.ware
versions: -Python 3.8
Michael Felt added the comment:
FYI: version 3.6.3 compiles and builds without this issue.
+ make install DESTDIR=/var/aixtools/python/Python/3.6.3.0 >
.buildaix/install.out
+ mkinstallp.ksh /var/aixtools/python/Python/3.6.3.0 > .buildaix/mkinstallp.out
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New submission from Michael Felt :
after git clone from master:
make install fails to complete with:
Important - python is not installed already.
FYI: also note - build completes successfully with 2.7.14 (will download and
check other python3 versions)
if test