[vbox-dev] [PATCH] support for newer python

[Klaus Espenlaub]

.. should be resolved, but needs updated sources (and re-building
packages). We can't change the past.

The important changeset is r81730 in the public vbox repo.

Klaus

On 25.10.2019 05:33, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> 
> 
> With Python 3.8 released still not build VBoxPython3*.so
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 10:03 +0200, Andreas Löffler wrote:
>> Sérgio,
>>
>> easiest would be running configure printing its commands to stderr,
>> e.g.
>> "sh -x ./configure".
>>
>> The Python 3.8-rc1 issue probably only is a lack of missing
>> clobbering
>> for SUPPYTHONLIBS or some sort.
> 
> 
> 
>>
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>>
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>> On 21.10.2019 20:56, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 13:30 +0200, Frank Batschulat wrote:
>>>> Gianfranco, I have a couple of pylint related changes pending
>>>> so I'll pick this one up and add it to the pylint changes.
>>>
>>> With Fedora rawhide which have Python 3.8-rc1, VBoxPython3*.so is
>>> not
>>> build , how I can debug this problem and find what VBox is missing
>>> ? 
>>>
>>> Thanks. 
>>>
>>>> On 17.10.19 12:52, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
>>>>> Hello, this patch was scheduled for merging some time ago, but
>>>>> never hit newer releases...Can you please give another try?
>>>>> MIT licensed, as usual
>>>>> Description: add python 3.7m as a supported version
>>>>> Author: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson at ubuntu.com>
>>>>> Origin: vendor
>>>>> Last-Update: 2018-07-12
>>>>> ---
>>>>> This patch header follows DEP-3: 
>>>>> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
>>>>> --- a/configure
>>>>> +++ b/configure
>>>>> @@ -1982,7 +1982,7 @@
>>>>>   }
>>>>>   EOF
>>>>>     found=
>>>>> -  SUPPYTHONLIBS="python2.7 python2.6 python3.1 python3.2
>>>>> python3.3
>>>>> python3.4 python3.4m python3.5 python3.5m python3.6 python3.6m"
>>>>> +  SUPPYTHONLIBS="python2.7 python2.6 python3.1 python3.2
>>>>> python3.3
>>>>> python3.4 python3.4m python3.5 python3.5m python3.6 python3.6m
>>>>> python3.7 python3.7m python3.8 python3.8m"
>>>>>     for p in $PYTHONDIR; do
>>>>>       for d in $SUPPYTHONLIBS; do
>>>>>         for b in lib/x86_64-linux-gnu lib/i386-linux-gnu lib64
>>>>> lib/64 lib; do
>>>>>