unable to compile mod_python due to "apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=9240576" during make command #137

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1. grisha commented on May 12, 2024

   

   grisha

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   This probably means that your Python was compiled without the --enable-shared option.
2. prescriptionlifeline commented on May 13, 2024

   

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   I didn't install python by compiling it - I installed it by doing sudo apt-get install python3-pip. https://docs.python.org/3/using/configure.html suggests that --enable-shared will build a shared Python library - libpython. If that's the case then it stands to reason that doing sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev should be sufficient but when I do that it shows that that's already installed.

   Why is sudo apt-get install python3-pip insufficient? Am I going to have to compile Apache and gcc and Linux, too?
3. grisha commented on May 13, 2024

   

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   That was just a guess. I think on Ubuntu you can just try installing the libapache2-mod-python package and avoid compiling.
4. prescriptionlifeline commented on May 23, 2024

   

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   So I just compiled the latest version of Python by doing this:

   wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.3/Python-3.12.3.tgz
   tar xvzf Python-3.12.3.tgz
   cd Python-3.12.3
   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"
   make
   make install
   
   pip3 install setuptools
   

   Now when I try to do make on mod_python I'm getting this error:

   /usr/local/bin/python3 setup.py build
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/root/mod_python/dist/setup.py", line 204, in <module>
       setup(name="mod_python",
     File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 103, in setup
       return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 146, in setup
       _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
     File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 318, in __init__
       self.metadata.version = self._normalize_version(self.metadata.version)
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 354, in _normalize_version
       normalized = str(Version(version))
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_vendor/packaging/version.py", line 200, in __init__
       raise InvalidVersion(f"Invalid version: '{version}'")
   setuptools.extern.packaging.version.InvalidVersion: Invalid version: 'error: unknown option `exclude'
   usage: git describe [<options>] [<commit-ish>...]
      or: git describe [<options>] --dirty
   
       --contains            find the tag that comes after the commit
       --debug               debug search strategy on stderr
       --all                 use any ref
       --tags                use any tag, even unannotated
       --long                always use long format
       --first-parent        only follow first parent
       --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
       --exact-match         only output exact matches
       --candidates <n>      consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)
       --match <pattern>     only consider tags matching <pattern>
       --always              show abbreviated commit object as fallback
       --dirty[=<mark>]      append <mark> on dirty working tree (default: "-dirty")
   
   3.5.0+'
   Makefile:24: recipe for target 'build' failed
   make[1]: *** [build] Error 1
   

   Any ideas?
5. grisha commented on May 23, 2024

   

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   Your git is too old and doesn't support the --exclude option, so one thing to try is to upgrade it. Another, perhaps simpler thing to try instead, is to remove git from the path - the compile should work just fine without git. Just rename your git binary temporarily to something else and try compiling again.