Nick Coghlan added the comment: Even updating from remote, and then making a fresh clone in a new directory, I can't reproduce this one - "./configure && make -j4" works for me.
Does strace give any potentially useful hints? For me: $ strace -e trace=file ./python -c "pass" the apparently relevant part of the strace output looks like: open("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/pyvenv.cfg", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/ncoghlan/devel/pyvenv.cfg", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Modules/Setup", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=15129, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/os.py", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=37715, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/pybuilddir.txt", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=26, ...}) = 0 open("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/pybuilddir.txt", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 stat("/usr/local/lib/python36.zip", 0x7ffc9a2d15a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/local/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/local/lib/python36.zip", 0x7ffc9a2d1120) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 open("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/encodings/__init__.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so", 0x7ffc9a2d1320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/encodings/__init__.abi3.so", 0x7ffc9a2d1320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/encodings/__init__.so", 0x7ffc9a2d1320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/encodings/__init__.py", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=5067, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/encodings/__init__.py", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=5067, ...}) = 0 open("/home/ncoghlan/devel/cpython-pristine/Lib/encodings/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26922> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com