----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> > To: "Fedora Python SIG" <python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2017 3:52:50 AM > Subject: Building the _uuid accelerator module for CPython 3.7 > > Hi folks, > > If anyone has built the development version of CPython on Fedora in > recent weeks you've likely received the following message: > > ``` > The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found: > _uuid > ``` > > This is a consequence of the new uuid accelerator module introduced in > https://bugs.python.org/issue11063, which means there's a new optional > build dependency in 3.7 that "sudo dnf builddep python3" won't pick up > yet. > > The first way that this can fail is simply because the new build > dependency is missing: > > $ ./configure | grep uuid > checking for uuid_generate_time_safe... no > > The fix for that is to install libuuid-devel: > > $ sudo dnf install libuuid-devel > $ ./configure | grep uuid > checking for uuid_generate_time_safe... yes > > However, there was also a bug in the build time check for the > existence of `uuid.h` and I've only just submitted the PR to fix that: > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/4565 > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
Thanks a bunch for the heads up Nick! -- Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
