Re: [Fink-users] [EXTERNAL] python27build error

[Derek H. <de...@as...>]

Dear Jianxin and Luigi,

thanks for your further reports.

> On 31 May 2020, at 12:09 pm, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti <lui...@mi...> wrote:
> 
> disappearance of 'readline' from the 'Failed to build these modules: 'list.
> I assume that the list of the log file provided by Jianxin to Derek will be the same (if required, I'll go for it).
> There is also another point that I don't understand; the issue under examination is going on on my iMac, that I couldn't use for a couple of months (lock-down effect); on the contrary, on my MacbookAir, which has a Fink installation that should be 'almost' the same as on iMac, the update to python27_2.7.18-1 went smoothly on May 6, with quite different .info and .patch files; so what changed going to python27_2.7.18-2? As for now, I didn't get any notification for an update to python27_2.7.18-2 on my MacbookAir.

You have not got a notification on the update as it is not merged yet, so the only way to test it ahead of
merging is to manually get the files as described earlier by Hanspeter:

> Can you go to <https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/pull/540/>
> and download these two files:
> 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fink/fink-distributions/159d62662c0d6351ca75ed47124a541889f2dfdb/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/python27.info
> 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fink/fink-distributions/159d62662c0d6351ca75ed47124a541889f2dfdb/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/python27.patch
> 
> and save them to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/languages (make the directory if not present)https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/raw/159d62662c0d6351ca75ed47124a541889f2dfdb/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/python27.info

But in any case this does not seem to resolve the second build error.

Did I understand that on that iMac building the same original python27_2.7.18-1 succeeded on 10.14 without
any errors with either readline or _scproxy? That makes things even more confusing, but it would reflect
Hanspeter’s results described in 
https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/624#issuecomment-629419708

Not sure how to proceed with such inconsistent behaviour, and searching the web for information related
to the _scproxy error brings up somewhat contradictory results as well. It looks like this may require a
fix to the compiler itself.

Cheers,
					Derek