[New-bugs-announce] [issue30912] python 3 git master fails to find libffi and build _ctypes on Mageia v6 x86-64

[Shlomi Fish]

New submission from Shlomi Fish:

Running "make" in cpython git master on mageia linux v6 x86-64 gives me this problem with ffi:

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running build
running build_ext
Header file /usr/include/ffi.h does not define LIBFFI_H or ffi_wrapper_h
INFO: Could not locate ffi libs and/or headers

The following modules found by detect_modules() in setup.py, have been
built by the Makefile instead, as configured by the Setup files:
atexit                pwd                   time


Failed to build these modules:
_ctypes

running build_scripts
copying and adjusting /home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/cpython/Tools/scripts/pydoc3 -> build/scripts-3.7
copying and adjusting /home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/cpython/Tools/scripts/idle3 -> build/scripts-3.7
copying and adjusting /home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/cpython/Tools/scripts/2to3 -> build/scripts-3.7
copying and adjusting /home/shlomif/Download/unpack/prog/python/cpython/Tools/scripts/pyvenv -> build/scripts-3.7
changing mode of build/scripts-3.7/pydoc3 from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-3.7/idle3 from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-3.7/2to3 from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-3.7/pyvenv from 644 to 755
renaming build/scripts-3.7/pydoc3 to build/scripts-3.7/pydoc3.7
renaming build/scripts-3.7/idle3 to build/scripts-3.7/idle3.7
renaming build/scripts-3.7/2to3 to build/scripts-3.7/2to3-3.7
renaming build/scripts-3.7/pyvenv to build/scripts-3.7/pyvenv-3.7
>>>>>>>

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commit d1cc037d1442cc35d1b194ec8e50901514360949
Author: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 12 16:05:43 2017 +0200

    bpo-30908: Fix dangling thread in test_os.TestSendfile (#2680)

    tearDown() now clears explicitly the self.server variable to make
    sure that the thread is completely cleared when tearDownClass()
    checks if all threads have been cleaned up.

    Fix the following warning:

    $ ./python -m test --fail-env-changed -m test.test_os.TestSendfile.test_keywords -R 3:1 test_os
    (...)
    Warning -- threading_cleanup() failed to cleanup 0 threads after 3 sec (count: 0, dangling: 2)
    (...)
    Tests result: ENV CHANGED
>>>>>

The problem is that my /usr/include/ffi.h looks like this:

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#define _MULTIARCH_HEADER ffi.h
#include <multiarch-dispatch.h>
>>>>

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components: Build
messages: 298243
nosy: shlomif, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: python 3 git master fails to find libffi and build _ctypes on Mageia v6 x86-64
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.7

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