[C++][Gandiva] Gandiva not building in manylinux

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The gandiva many linux builds have started failing post 0fc5bc4

ninja is unable to interpret the make_precompiled_bitcode.py  correctly.

@pitrou - I tried to fix it but did not make much progress :) Could you please help out.

Error is "File "/arrow/cpp/src/gandiva/precompiled/../make_precompiled_bitcode.py", line 22
    marker = B"<DATA_CHARS>"
                          
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

 

Reporter: Praveen Kumar / @praveenbingo
Assignee: Praveen Kumar / @praveenbingo

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #4703

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-5737. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou:
You should make sure a more recent Python version is present on PATH. Python 2.7 or Python 3 should be ok.

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Krisztian Szucs / @kszucs:
Issue resolved by pull request 4703
#4703