[Samba] Building samba 4.17.4 on CentOS7

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Jan 18 15:24:51 UTC 2023



On 18/01/2023 15:16, Greg Dickie wrote:
> Hey Rowland,
> 
>    Thanks for the reply. I was not aware of that page but that's super 
> helpful. Unfortunately it does not fix my problem. I think I'm missing 
> something basic. At this point I'm just trying to rebuild the centos7 
> srpm. See the attached error message (configure  fails).
> 
> 

The attachment probably never made the list (it strips attachments), but 
it got to me and one line points out your problem:

File 
"/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/samba-4.10.16/third_party/waf/waflib/Utils.py", 
line 609, in h_list_python2

Centos 7 defaulted to python 2 and Samba now mandates python 3

Rowland




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