bug#26136: core-updates: address@hidden fails due to missing zlib

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 09:19:01PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> An alternative workaround is to use this instead:
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> index be452f062..04c944d84 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm12/bin/shore-updates/guix$ 
> /gnu/store/k7029k5va68lka
> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> @@ -229,6 +229,8 @@
>             ;; before 1980".  Work around this by setting the file times in 
> the
>             ;; source tree to sometime in early 1980.
>             (lambda _
> +             (setenv "CONFIG_SHELL" (which "bash"))
> +

I think this is the better solution to the libffi / ctypes issue. It
also fixes address@hidden to use the bundled libffi. We added libffi
to address@hidden's inputs in
d0b73960db051baa468fc1a0fbab21fa9f89f885 to work around a similar issue.

In Python 3.7, the bundled libffi will be removed, and we will have to
build our minimal Python-3 variant with an external libffi package:

https://bugs.python.org/issue27976

Here's a patch that fixes this problem for address@hidden I don't
want to change address@hidden this late in the core-updates cycle; we
can do it in a python-updates branch after core-updates.

0001-gnu-python-minimal-2-Fix-build-failure-due-to-missin.patch
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