New submission from Mark Summerfield: When I try to build APSW (http://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/index.html) with Python 3.3 or 3.4 on Debian stable 64-bit I get the error output shown below.
I dug into the source and it seems that the problem is that distutils/ccompiler.py's gen_preprocess_options() functions expects to get a sequence of macros and each macro *must* be a 1 or 2 item tuple. But for some reason during the APSW build it gets a 2 item list which it then chokes on. Now, the code really does need a tuple because in some cases it uses Python's % print formatting option as in "-D%s=%s" % macro -- and this won't work if macro is a list. I solved this problem for me by adding two lines, shown here in context: pp_opts = [] for macro in macros: if isinstance(macro, list): # NEW macro = tuple(macro) # NEW I don't know how safe or wise a fix this is, but it did work for me for a locally built (from www.python.org tarball) 3.3 and 3.4. $ /home/mark/opt/python34/bin/python3 setup.py fetch --all build --enable-all-extensions install running fetch Getting download page to work out current SQLite version Fetching https://sqlite.org/download.html Version is 3.8.7.1 Getting the SQLite amalgamation Fetching https://sqlite.org/2014/sqlite-autoconf-3080701.tar.gz Length: 1998389 SHA1: 5601be1263842209d7c5dbf6128f1cc0b6bbe2e5 MD5: 8ee4541ebb3e5739e7ef5e9046e30063 Checksums verified Running configure to work out SQLite compilation flags setup.py:53: DeprecationWarning: 'U' mode is deprecated f=open(name, mode) running build running build_ext SQLite: Using amalgamation /home/mark/zip/apsw-3.8.7.1-r1/sqlite3/sqlite3.c setup.py:624: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name=4 encoding='UTF-8'> for part in shlex.split(os.popen("icu-config --cppflags", "r").read()): setup.py:637: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name=4 encoding='UTF-8'> for part in shlex.split(os.popen("icu-config --ldflags", "r").read()): ICU: Added includes, flags and libraries from icu-config building 'apsw' extension Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 862, in <module> 'win64hackvars': win64hackvars} File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/dist.py", line 955, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/command/build.py", line 126, in run self.run_command(cmd_name) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "setup.py", line 661, in run v=beparent.run(self) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 339, in run self.build_extensions() File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 448, in build_extensions self.build_extension(ext) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 503, in build_extension depends=ext.depends) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 566, in compile depends, extra_postargs) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 341, in _setup_compile pp_opts = gen_preprocess_options(macros, incdirs) File "/home/mark/opt/python34/lib/python3.4/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 1061, in gen_preprocess_options % macro) TypeError: bad macro definition '['_FORTIFY_SOURCE', '2']': each element of 'macros' list must be a 1- or 2-tuple ---------- components: Distutils messages: 231008 nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, mark priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: distutils needlessly fails to build apsw type: behavior versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22846> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com