On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 01:36 am, Ned Deily wrote: > On 2016-10-02 00:25, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 01:58 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> Hmm, I've possibly missed something here, which may indicate a >>> problem. Why can't your existing machines build? Is it because they >>> have too-old versions of tools, and if so, which? >> Yes, this. You need gcc 4.8 or better to build CPython 3.6, and the most >> recent any of my systems support is 4.4. > > I'm using a gcc 4.2 to build 3.6.
How on earth do you do that? What magic incantations are you using? I understand that Python 3.6 is now using C99 features that aren't available before gcc 4.8. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
