On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 2:06 AM Joshua J. Kugler <jos...@azariah.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, September 3, 2020 8:59:09 PM AKDT Cameron Simpson wrote: > > I've built 3.8.5 on a few other machines happily recently. > > > > Building Python 3.8.5, running make and gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u2) > > 4.9.2 I get this: > > I am going to assume the version of C required is past what is in that old of > a version of Debian. I don't see anything that calls out the C version > required in the Python docs, but I doubt they have Debian 8 in their build > farm any more. >
You'd be surprised :) There is, in fact, a Debian 8.9 system in the build farm. I know, because I maintain it. (It's a VM underneath my live system which is Debian 9.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
