Re: CrackLib-2.10.2 python module

On 10/31/24 22:41, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-10-30 at 22:07 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I've been checking the packages that use Python with python-3.13.
>>
>> In the cracklib build I've been unable to build the python module that we mention
>> in BLFS:
>>
>>     Installed Libraries: libcrack.so and the _cracklib.so (Python module)
>>
>> First, the configure command refuses to find python3.13/Python.h, yet that exists:
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3960 Oct 28 13:26 /usr/include/python3.13/Python.h
>>
>> If I hack configure to force it to build the module, I get:
>>
>> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>> -DDEFAULT_CRACKLIB_DICT=\"/usr/local/share/cracklib/pw_dict\"
>> -DPYTHON_H=\"python3.13/Python.h\" -I. -I.. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
>> -I../lib -Wall -g -O2 -MT _cracklib.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/_cracklib.Tpo -c _cracklib.c
>>    -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/_cracklib.o
>> In file included from /usr/include/python3.13/pyatomic.h:9,
>>                    from /usr/include/python3.13/Python.h:70,
>>                    from _cracklib.c:28:
>> /usr/include/python3.13/cpython/pyatomic.h:532:12: fatal error:
>> cpython/pyatomic_gcc.h: No such file or directory
>>     532 | #  include "cpython/pyatomic_gcc.h"
>>         |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>> We do not mention cpython anywhere in BLFS although the Python build installs 50
>> header files in the /usr/include/python3.13/cpython/ directory including pyatomic_gcc.h
>>
>> I do note that Arch Linux passes --without-python to configure.
>>
>> The easy way to go is to just remove the mention of the python module.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> What I've done to make it work:
> 
> autoreconf &&
> CPPFLAGS+=' -I /usr/include/python3.13' \
> ./configure --prefix=/usr    \
>              --disable-static \
>              --with-default-dict=/usr/lib/cracklib/pw_dict &&
> sed 's/makeSuite/TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase/' \
>      -i ./python/test_cracklib.py
> make &&
> make install
> 
> I.e. "autoreconf" makes it to recognize python3.13 as an interpreter,
> and CPPFLAGS makes it able to find pyatomic_gcc.h.  The sed adapts the
> test suite for Python 3.13.
> 
> Then `python3 -c 'import cracklib; cracklib.test()'` for testing the
> python module.

Thanks Xi, I'll add that tomorrow.

   -- Bruce

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