Python problems on OS X

[Chris Johns]

On 18/11/20 7:58 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 2:01 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org
> <mailto:gedare at rtems.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:19 AM Andrew Butterfield
>     <Andrew.Butterfield at scss.tcd.ie <mailto:Andrew.Butterfield at scss.tcd.ie>> wrote:
>     >
>     > I keep getting a python error when trying to build the tool suite on
>     > OS X. The end of the error log is:
>     >
>     > ```
>     > checking whether to use python...
>     /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2
>     > checking for python... no
>     > configure: error: no usable python found at
>     /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2
>     > make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
>     > make: *** [all] Error 2
>     > shell cmd failed: /bin/sh -ex 
>     /Users/butrfeld/REPOS/esa-qual/modules/rsb/rtems/build/sparc-rtems6-gdb-0295dde-x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0-1/do-build
>     > error: building sparc-rtems6-gdb-0295dde-x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0-14
> 
> This is a candidate for the worst error message ever. 

BSOD ?

> It isn't looking for the
> Python interpreter executable, it is looking for Python development libraries 
> and headers.  There is a lot of code above this point but the final check/error 
> is in gdb/configure.ac <http://configure.ac>. If the build tree is still around,
> look at gdb/config.log
> for details on what it really tried.
> 
> On CentOS, the package is named something like python-devel. My recollection
> is that it needs to be Python2 but that may be outdated based on the gdb version.

Correct. Recent gdb versions support python2 and python3 and we look for both.

Chris