compile error building building Python-3.8.5 on Debian 8.11 (yes, old!)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 04Sep2020 15:54, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>> I've built 3.8.5 on a few other machines happily recently.
>Those are warnings; if there are errors that block compilation, they
>aren't in what you quoted above.

Yes, that's what I thought. And yet it failed :-(

And I just retried and now it's good. That is just.. weird. And I can't 
find the shell it failed in :-(

Sorry to have bugged people.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>