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

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 2:06 AM Joshua J. Kugler <joshua at azariah.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, September 3, 2020 8:59:09 PM AKDT Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > I've built 3.8.5 on a few other machines happily recently.
> >
> > Building Python 3.8.5, running make and gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u2)
> > 4.9.2 I get this:
>
> I am going to assume the version of C required is past what is in that old of
> a version of Debian. I don't see anything that calls out the C version
> required in the Python docs, but I doubt they have Debian 8 in their build
> farm any more.
>

You'd be surprised :) There is, in fact, a Debian 8.9 system in the
build farm. I know, because I maintain it. (It's a VM underneath my
live system which is Debian 9.)

ChrisA