a) I wish I seen this earlier, but I have been away from OSS for the last weeks as my RL job has priority. b) to answer a very different question I needed to look at the current (Always FAIL) status of the the two AIX buildbots - and I saw that 11 days ago they both started failing with the following messages: renaming build/scripts-3.8/2to3 to build/scripts-3.8/2to3-3.8 ./install-sh -c -m 644 ./Tools/gdb/libpython.py python-gdb.py ./install-sh: not found make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. renaming build/scripts-3.8/2to3 to build/scripts-3.8/2to3-3.8 ./install-sh -c -m 644 ./Tools/gdb/libpython.py python-gdb.py make: execvp: ./install-sh: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action. Makefile:662: recipe for target 'python-gdb.py' failed I am quite surprised, because, afaik, gdb is not used on either of the AIX bots. In any case These two runs failed in the "normal" way https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/10/builds/1644/steps/4/logs/stdio https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/161/builds/327/steps/4/logs/stdio And these fail during the build. https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/10/builds/1645/steps/2/logs/stdio https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/161/builds/328/steps/2/logs/stdio Help appreciated. Michael