[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Failed to build select

[Ned Deily]

On Aug 8, 2016, at 02:45, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 12:17:21AM -0400, Ned Deily wrote:
>> Also, try without setting PYTHONHOME.  I'm not sure what you're trying to do by setting that but you shouldn't need to.
> I didn't think I needed to either, but when I try without it, I get:
> 
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]



On Aug 8, 2016, at 03:25, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I would be interested in learning more about the above warning
> (its significance, how it can be addressed, whether it can be ignored,
> etc). I also get this message when installing 3.5.2 from source on
> Ubuntu 14.04.

Those messages are harmless and are generated by the Makefile steps that update Importlib's bootstrap files, Python/importlib_external.h and Python/importlib_external.h.  See http://bugs.python.org/issue14928 for the origins of this.  It should be possible to fix the Makefile to suppress those messages.  I suggest you open an issue about it.

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