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diff --git a/metadata/news/2015-12-16-python-abiflags-rebuild-needed/2015-12-16-python-abiflags-rebuild-needed.en.txt b/metadata/news/2015-12-16-python-abiflags-rebuild-needed/2015-12-16-python-abiflags-rebuild-needed.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7fa3adea7a79 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2015-12-16-python-abiflags-rebuild-needed/2015-12-16-python-abiflags-rebuild-needed.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Title: Python ABIFLAGS rebuild needed +Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2015-12-16 +Revision: 5 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r4 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r5 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r6 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r7 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r8 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r9 +Display-If-Installed: ~dev-lang/python-3.3.6 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.4.3-r4 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.4.3-r5 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.4.3-r6 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.4.3-r7 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.4.3-r8 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.4.3-r9 +Display-If-Installed: ~dev-lang/python-3.4.4 +Display-If-Installed: ~dev-lang/python-3.4.5 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.5.0-r3 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.5.0-r4 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.5.0-r5 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.5.0-r6 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.5.0-r7 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.5.0-r8 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-lang/python-3.5.0-r9 +Display-If-Installed: ~dev-lang/python-3.5.1 +Display-If-Installed: ~dev-lang/python-3.5.2 + +For several years, Gentoo has been patching python3 in a way that is +incompatible with PEP 3149 [1]. Gentoo has been enabling the PyMalloc feature, +but our python packages have not carried the appropriate ABI flag. + +We have removed this patch from the most recent dev-lang/python ebuilds at +the time of this writing. One result of this is that any packages which +install python extension modules must be rebuilt. + +You may experience build failures in related packages until this rebuild has +been completed. + +You can rebuild affected packages using the following commands. + +emerge -1v $(find /usr/lib*/python3* -name '*cpython-3[3-5].so') +emerge -1v /usr/include/python3.{3,4,5} + +It is possible that these commands will do nothing (or display a syntax error) +if all affected packages have already been rebuilt, causing the relevent files +to no longer exist. + +References: +[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/ |