Bug 388519 – sys-devel/autoconf-archive-2011.09.17 fails checks when used with Python 3.x

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nikolay Orlyuk 2011-10-26 09:10:13 UTC]

Many builds (including sys-apps/paludis-0.70.0) produces errors when python3.2 is selected as default Python interpreter.


Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.3... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 3.2
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib64/python3.2/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib64/python3.2/site-packages
checking whether your gcc is new enough to enable Python... yes
  File "<string>", line 1
    import sys; print sys.prefix
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... /include/python3.2
checking for Python.h... no
  File "<string>", line 1
    import sys; print sys.exec_prefix
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
configure: error: Python.h not found in /include/python3.2

[Comment 1 Nikolay Orlyuk 2011-10-26 09:11:06 UTC]

Created attachment 290853 [details, diff]
Compatibility with python3

[Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2011-11-11 13:30:57 UTC]

Not for us to fix.

Please report this upstream.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-03-29 17:37:50 UTC]

*** Bug 463648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***