[issue39695] Failed to build _uuid module, but libraries was installed

Marco Sulla added the comment: Ah, well, this is not possible. I was banned from the mailing list. I wrote my "defense" to conduct...@python.org in date 2019-12-29, and I'm still waiting for a response... -- ___ Python tracker

[issue39695] Failed to build _uuid module, but libraries was installed

Ammar Askar added the comment: Sorry about your experience Marco but I think the dev guide is pretty clear on all these steps (including having to redo `make clean`). You can find some discussion on the build system here https://discuss.python.org/t/is-there-prior-discussion-around-the-build

[issue39695] Failed to build _uuid module, but libraries was installed

Marco Sulla added the comment: Well, the fact is, basically, for the other libraries you have not to re-run `configure`. You have to install only the missing C libraries and redo `make`. This works, for example, for zlib, lzma, ctypes, sqlite3, readline, bzip2. Furthermore, it happened to me

[issue39695] Failed to build _uuid module, but libraries was installed

Ammar Askar added the comment: Is this still a problem after you run configure again? As pointed out in https://devguide.python.org/setup/#unix > If you decide to Install dependencies, you will need to re-run both configure > and make. -- nosy: +ammar2 _

[issue39695] Failed to build _uuid module, but libraries was installed

New submission from Marco Sulla : When I first done `make` to compile Python 3.9, I did not installed some debian development packages, like `uuid-dev`. So `_uuid` module was not built. After installed the debian package I re-run `make`, but it failed to build `_uuid` module. I had to edit ma