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Python 2 configure error: "You must get working getaddrinfo() function." #37

Closed josephbisch closed 1 year ago

josephbisch commented 9 years ago

I am trying to compile Python 2 using the tools in arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64/bin. During the configure process, I get the following output:

checking for getaddrinfo... yes
checking getaddrinfo bug... yes
Fatal: You must get working getaddrinfo() function.
       or you can specify "--disable-ipv6".

This seems to be a bug with these tools, because the same Python compiles for x86_64 Linux fine.

I know the configure script is picking up the tools correctly, because I see output like checking host system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf and checking for arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc... arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.

I am using the following Makefile to build Python. It is part of the depends system adopted from Bitcoin Core designed to build software dependencies in a reproducible way. It doesn't work standalone, but you can still get an idea of what it does.

package=python2
$(package)_version=2.7.9
$(package)_download_path=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$($(package)_version)
$(package)_file_name=Python-$($(package)_version).tgz
$(package)_sha256_hash=c8bba33e66ac3201dabdc556f0ea7cfe6ac11946ec32d357c4c6f9b018c12c5b

define $(package)_config_cmds
  $($(package)_autoconf) --build=$(BUILD)
endef

define $(package)_build_cmds
  $(MAKE)
endef

define $(package)_stage_cmds
  $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$($(package)_staging_dir) install
endef

As you can see it downloads Python 2.7.9 and verifies the hash. It runs ./configure with some standard flags like --host. I also supply --build. Then it runs make and make DESTDIR=... install. This same exact Makefile works with x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu as the --host parameter.

The relevant section of configure.ac from Python is line 3514 of configure.ac. That is a link to Python 3, but you get the idea. It looks like there are a number of things checked in that one getaddrinfo() check, so I am not sure which one is actually the issue.

popcornmix commented 9 years ago

It is much more likely an issue with the configure script rather than the toolchain. We build a lot of code with this toolchain and it was built for us by Linaro.

I suggest you try adding --disable-ipv6 to the configure line as the error suggests.

josephbisch commented 9 years ago

Thanks for getting back.

I looked at the Python configure script closer and saw that explicitly setting --enable-ipv6 seems to override the result of the test. The build seems to proceed fine, but I haven't actually tried out the result yet. You are probably right, but I'll leave this open until I can verify the build works.

Using --disable-ipv6 is not an option for my case.

VijayaRanis01 commented 1 year ago

python3-devel installation fixed the issue