Question about building Python-3.9.12 on OpenBSD 7.1

[Tim Brazil]

Thanks for the response HTH. Your comment led me to think
that perhaps a "ports" dependency failed to be generated correctly.
They are patched on the fly.

I went back to "scratch" on fresh installation with a clean Python build.
This time it worked correctly. Go figure... thx! - Tim

Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> It's been my understanding that there is a fundamental difference 
> between the *BSD's and the Linuxes.
>
> The *BSD's have their ports system, that collects deltas against 
> third-party packages to build them on a *BSD.  These deltas become 
> part of the ports system.
>
> The Linuxes port an application, and contribute the deltas to the 
> package's upstream maintainer.
>
> For this reason, I suspect you may do well to contact the person in 
> charge of the port of CPython to OpenBSD.
>
> HTH
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 5:46 PM Tim Brazil <timbrazil at sbcglobal.net 
> <mailto:timbrazil at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hello
>
>     I hope I am not breaking protocol sending this message to the list.
>     This is my first posting to python-list.
>
>     I am trying to build Python-3.9.12 from the ports distribution on
>     on a new OpenBSD 7.1 installation.
>     It is failing with the following error.
>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>        File "/usr/obj/ports/Python-3.9.12/Python-3.9.12/./setup.py", line
>     2509, in <module>
>          class PyBuildInstallLib(install_lib):
>        File "/usr/obj/ports/Python-3.9.12/Python-3.9.12/./setup.py", line
>     2516, in PyBuildInstallLib
>          shlib_suffix = sysconfig.get_config_var("SHLIB_SUFFIX")
>        File
>     "/usr/obj/ports/Python-3.9.12/Python-3.9.12/Lib/sysconfig.py",
>     line 616, in get_config_var
>          return get_config_vars().get(name)
>        File
>     "/usr/obj/ports/Python-3.9.12/Python-3.9.12/Lib/sysconfig.py",
>     line 565, in get_config_vars
>          _init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
>        File
>     "/usr/obj/ports/Python-3.9.12/Python-3.9.12/Lib/sysconfig.py",
>     line 430, in _init_posix
>          _temp = __import__(name, globals(), locals(),
>     ['build_time_vars'], 0)
>     ModuleNotFoundError: No module named
>     '_sysconfigdata__openbsd7_amd64-unknown-openbsd7'
>     *** Error 1 in /usr/obj/ports/Python-3.9.12/Python-3.9.12
>     (Makefile:649
>     'sharedmods': @case "`echo X $MAKEFLAGS | sed 's/^X //;s/ --
>     .*//'`"...)
>
>     In researching this on the internet I discovered a similar
>     reporting on
>     FreeBSD that seems to relate to regex and MULTIARZCH in the FreeBSD
>     Makefile but it doesn't seem to apply to the port of my
>     Makefile/environment.
>
>     This is the report I am referring to:
>
>     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259896
>
>     My exact problem is...
>
>     I do not have z _sysconfigdata__openbsd7_amd64-unknown-openbsd7 module
>     but I do have a
>     _sysconfigdata__openbsd7_amd64-unknown-openbsd7.1.py
>     <http://sysconfigdata__openbsd7_amd64-unknown-openbsd7.1.py> module
>     under:
>
>     ./build/lib.openbsd-7.1-amd64-3.9/_sysconfigdata__openbsd7_amd64-unknown-openbsd7.1.py
>     <http://sysconfigdata__openbsd7_amd64-unknown-openbsd7.1.py>
>
>     I suspect somewhere, it's not picking up the full 7.1 version string.
>     I am having a problem figuring it out. I kindly ask if you have any
>     pointers on fixing
>     it. Should I log a bug or is it a OpenBSD package thing?
>
>     Thanks in Advance
>     Tim
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