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

[Andrew Bartlett]

This is fixed by 

commit dc27ff44de578b0b429a24b0e42e243d8bf481a8
Author: Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Wed Jun 12 12:27:04 2019 +0200

    wafsamba: Use native waf timer
    
      __main__:1: DeprecationWarning: time.clock has been deprecated in
Python 3.3
      and will be removed from Python 3.8: use time.perf_counter
      or time.process_time instead
    
    BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13998
    
    Signed-off-by: Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn at fedoraproject.org>
    Reviewed-by: Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    Reviewed-by: Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org>


I think you are cloning an old tree.

Andrew Bartlett

On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 10:02 +1300, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical
wrote:
> https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/time.html#time.clock
> 
> Deprecated since version 3.3, will be removed in version 3.8: The
> behaviour of this function depends on the platform: use
> perf_counter() or process_time() instead, depending on your
> requirements, to have a well defined behaviour.
> 
> Python hasn't learnt the lesson from their previous removals (which
> thankfully were caught pre-release) it seems. 
> 
> See https://bugs.python.org/issue37330 for another example.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
> On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 14:06 -0600, Steve French wrote:
> > And same error with default "./configure"
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:05 PM Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 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
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Andrew Bartlett (he/him)       https://samba.org/~abartlet/
> > > > Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org
> > > > Samba Team Lead, Catalyst IT   
> > > > https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
> > > > 
> > > > Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source
> > > > Solutions
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Steve
-- 
Andrew Bartlett (he/him)       https://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org
Samba Team Lead, Catalyst IT   https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

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