[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/cracklib: python needs autoreconf

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:07:07 +0100
Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Set CRACKLIB_AUTORECONF when building python to regenerate
> python/test/Makefile and avoid the following build failure with python
> 3.12 (which removed imp mpodule) raised since commit
> 36e635d2d5c0166476858aa239ccbe78e8f2af14:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:485: install-pythonPYTHON] Error 1
> 
> Fixes:
>  - http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/aec4c19fdf8087c76c1d5f472e855e0f84fcf7fd

Thanks for the fix. Could you describe a bit how an autoreconf helps in
resolving this? Is it because the new Python comes with a newer set of
.m4 macros?

Thomas
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