[New-bugs-announce] [issue32095] AIX: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes' - make install fails

[Michael Felt]

New submission from Michael Felt <michael at felt.demon.nl>:

after git clone from master:
make install fails to complete with:

Important - python is not installed already.
FYI: also note - build completes successfully with 2.7.14 (will download and check other python3 versions)

        if test "xupgrade" != "xno"  ; then  case upgrade in  upgrade) ensurepip="--upgrade" ;;  install|*) ensurepip="" ;;  esac;   ./python -E -m ensurepip  $ensurepip --root=/ ;  fi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/prj/python/git/src/python3-3.7.0.1/Lib/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/data/prj/python/git/src/python3-3.7.0.1/Lib/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/data/prj/python/git/src/python3-3.7.0.1/Lib/ensurepip/__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
    sys.exit(ensurepip._main())
  File "/data/prj/python/git/src/python3-3.7.0.1/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 204, in _main
    default_pip=args.default_pip,
  File "/data/prj/python/git/src/python3-3.7.0.1/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 117, in _bootstrap
    return _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
  File "/data/prj/python/git/src/python3-3.7.0.1/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 27, in _run_pip
    import pip
  File "/tmp/tmpg0jc_9p6/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpg0jc_9p6/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/vcs/mercurial.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpg0jc_9p6/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/download.py", line 36, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpg0jc_9p6/pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/utils/glibc.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "/data/prj/python/git/src/python3-3.7.0.1/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes'
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

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components: Build
messages: 306581
nosy: Michael.Felt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: AIX: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes' - make install fails
versions: Python 3.8

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