Samba build error: module 'time' has no attribute 'clock'

[Steve French]

I cloned jra's tree to fresh tree (master-smb2 branch) and get this
error on build:

Checking for python version >= 2.6.0
           : 3.9.7
python-config
           : /usr/bin/python3-config
Asking python-config for pyembed '--cflags --libs --ldflags' flags
           : yes
Testing pyembed configuration
           : Could not build a python embedded interpreter
Testing pyembed configuration
           : Could not build a python embedded interpreter
The configuration failed
(complete log in /home/smfrench/jra/samba/bin/config.log)
PYTHONHASHSEED=1 WAF_MAKE=1  ./buildtools/bin/waf build
The project was not configured: run "waf configure" first!

(Running waf configure directly gets a similar error)

Checking for python version >= 2.6.0
           : 3.9.7
python-config
           : /usr/bin/python3-config
Asking python-config for pyembed '--cflags --libs --ldflags' flags
           : yes
Testing pyembed configuration
           : Could not build a python embedded interpreter
Testing pyembed configuration
           : Could not build a python embedded interpreter
The configuration failed
(complete log in /home/smfrench/jra/samba/bin/config.log)

The command being run was:
./configure --without-pam --without-ldap --without-winbind
--without-ads --without-ad-dc

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:57 AM Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 11:40 -0600, Steve French via samba-technical
> wrote:
> > Not having much luck building Jeremy's master-smb2 branch (
> >
> > https://git.samba.org/?p=jra/samba/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master-smb2)
> >
> > on Ubuntu
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone recognize this Samba build error and how to fix it?
>
> Try with a very clean tree, if you haven't built Samba for a very long
> time.
>
> We had a Samba python file called time.py that could therefore jump in
> front of the system time, but I never saw it cause build errors.  We
> renamed it a long while back, but an old .pyc file could be the issue.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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-- 
Thanks,

Steve