"abort: repository . not found!" during the build of Python 2.7

[serhiy-storchaka]

BPO	29721
Nosy	@benjaminp, @bitdancer, @serhiy-storchaka

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title = '"abort: repository . not found!" during the build of Python 2.7'
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[serhiy-storchaka]

The message "abort: repository . not found!" is output to stderr three times during the build of Python 2.7. To be more precise, it happens during the build of getbuildinfo.c.

$ touch Modules/getbuildinfo.c
$ make -s
abort: repository . not found!
abort: repository . not found!
abort: repository . not found!
libpython2.7.a(posixmodule.o): у функції «posix_tmpnam»:
/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/./Modules/posixmodule.c:7614: попередження: the use of `tmpnam_r' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
libpython2.7.a(posixmodule.o): у функції «posix_tempnam»:
/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/./Modules/posixmodule.c:7561: попередження: the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
building dbm using gdbm

Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:
_bsddb bsddb185 sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.

All works correctly when build Python 3.x.

This looks related to bpo-12346.

[serhiy-storchaka]

The issue no longer reproduced.