Compiling Python 3.6.1 on macOS 10.12.5

Tue Jul 11 09:53:17 EDT 2017

Hi
The python process only goes to around 4.8 MB before it dies and the machine has 4GB of RAM so I do not think it’s a memory issue.
Thanks,
Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: INADA Naoki [mailto:songofacandy at gmail.com] 
Sent: 11 July 2017 02:57
To: Nigel Palmer <nigel at cresset-group.com>
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Compiling Python 3.6.1 on macOS 10.12.5
> Killed: 9

It looks like not segmentation fault.
Maybe, RAM shortage?
INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Nigel Palmer <nigel at cresset-group.com> wrote:
> Hi
>> I am trying to compile Python 3.6.1 on macOS 10.12.5 with xcode 8.8.3 
> using the instructions at 
> https://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html#build-dependencies but I 
> am getting the error
>> ./python.exe -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars ;\
> if test $? -ne 0 ; then \
> echo "generate-posix-vars failed" ; \
> rm -f ./pybuilddir.txt ; \
> exit 1 ; \
> fi
> /bin/sh: line 1: 96973 Killed: 9 ./python.exe -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars
> generate-posix-vars failed
> make: *** [pybuilddir.txt] Error 1
>> When I manually run that command using dbll I get:
>> lldb ./python.exe -- -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars
> (lldb) target create "./python.exe"
> Current executable set to './python.exe' (x86_64).
> (lldb) settings set -- target.run-args "-E" "-S" "-m" "sysconfig" "--generate-posix-vars"
> (lldb) r
> Process 96978 launched: './python.exe' (x86_64) Could not find 
> platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting 
> $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Process 96978 exited with 
> status = 0 (0x00000000)
> (lldb)
>>> The commands I ran to configure and build python are:
> brew install openssl xz
> CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew 
> --prefix openssl)/lib" ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/../build make
>> Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
>> Many Thanks
> Nigel
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