Building Samba master from a few days ago on CentOS 8.5 runs into a weird Python problem

[Richard Sharpe]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 7:44 PM Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2023-08-16 at 18:50 -0700, Richard Sharpe via samba-technical wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I am trying to configure Samba master from a few days ago on a CentOS
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> 8.5 system.
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> I ran the bootstrap script and it only complained about lmdb-devel ...
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> Then when I ran configure --enable-debug, I got this error:
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> # ./configure --enable-debug
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> Setting top to                           : /root/src/samba-ad-error-injection
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> Setting out to                           :
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> /root/src/samba-ad-error-injection/bin
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> Checking for 'gcc' (C compiler)          : Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "/root/src/samba-ad-error-injection/third_party/waf/waflib/Utils.py",
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> line 833, in wrap
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>     return cache[k]
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> KeyError: (<samba_waf18.ConfigurationContext object at 0x7fb83837d8e0>,)
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> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "/root/src/samba-ad-error-injection/third_party/waf/waflib/Utils.py",
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> line 833, in wrap
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>     return cache[k]
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> KeyError: (<samba_waf18.ConfigurationContext object at 0x7fb83837d8e0>,)
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> ---------------------------------------
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> In looking at the Python code it seems like there is an issue with the
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> except KeyError clause in the code.
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> Has anyone seen this issue before?
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> Richard,
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> Just checking if you managed to work it out?

Yes, I did thank you. The bootstrap script had not actually run and
all I had to do from memory was to remove lmdb-devel from the list of
RPMs installed.

It was confusing at first because I first built it on one of our
standard build VMs and did not have to run the bootstrap script.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)