Lisandro, For the upcoming release its best to update lib/petsc/bin/maint/builddist to also build petsc4py tarball in sync with petsc tarball.
What is the current process to generate petsc4py tarball? BTW: I stumbled into a couple of issues with building petsc4py docs 1. the docs build process requires petsc library to be built? >>>> python setup.py build_src running build_src cythonizing 'petsc4py.PETSc.pyx' -> 'petsc4py.PETSc.c' cythonizing 'libpetsc4py/libpetsc4py.pyx' -> 'libpetsc4py/libpetsc4py.c' mkdir -p docs/apiref env CFLAGS=-O0 python2 setup.py -q build --build-lib build/lib.py2 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpetsc collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 make[2]: *** [makefile:110: epydoc-html] Error 1 gmake[1]: [makefile:422: sphinx-docs-all] Error 2 (ignored) <<< 2. Any particular reason it needs python2? I see it requires docutils,epydoc - but I see python3 is able to install them. >>>> $ python3 -m pip install docutils epydoc Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Requirement already satisfied: docutils in /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages (0.16) Collecting epydoc Using cached epydoc-3.0.1.tar.gz (1.8 MB) Building wheels for collected packages: epydoc Building wheel for epydoc (setup.py) ... done Created wheel for epydoc: filename=epydoc-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl size=263123 sha256=003e3ba68fc90b43fec554873c0b75878cf02d9f03c5b63dd465acf3ec1351e6 Stored in directory: /home/balay/.cache/pip/wheels/9c/b1/6d/3c2a87bd69d3844ea31496eba2509194f1c9ee2dc18d51ca14 Successfully built epydoc Installing collected packages: epydoc Successfully installed epydoc-3.0.1 <<< The basic issue I had was the way the python check for 'docutils,epydoc' was done required me to install them with both python2 and python3 [as /usr/bin/python was v3 for me] thanks, Satish