compile error building building Python-3.8.5 on Debian 8.11 (yes, old!)

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Thursday, September 3, 2020 8:59:09 PM AKDT Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I've built 3.8.5 on a few other machines happily recently.
> 
> Building Python 3.8.5, running make and gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u2)
> 4.9.2 I get this:

I am going to assume the version of C required is past what is in that old of 
a version of Debian. I don't see anything that calls out the C version 
required in the Python docs, but I doubt they have Debian 8 in their build 
farm any more.

j

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