Cannot install Python from source on Apple Silicon M1

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gernophil OP

Created Sep ’23

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I am trying to install Python from source according to the readme using:

./configure
make <-- Error happens here
make test
sudo make altinstall

However, I cannot complete the make command since it fails with:

Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
  "_libintl_bindtextdomain", referenced from:
      __locale_bindtextdomain in _localemodule.o
  "_libintl_dcgettext", referenced from:
      __locale_dcgettext in _localemodule.o
  "_libintl_dgettext", referenced from:
      __locale_dgettext in _localemodule.o
  "_libintl_gettext", referenced from:
      __locale_gettext in _localemodule.o
  "_libintl_setlocale", referenced from:
      __locale_setlocale in _localemodule.o
      __locale_localeconv in _localemodule.o
  "_libintl_textdomain", referenced from:
      __locale_textdomain in _localemodule.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [Programs/_freeze_module] Error 1

Looks like make is somehow using the wrong architecture. I just don't know why. Does anyone have an idea?

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gernophil OP

Sep ’23

I stumbled across this bug report: https://bugs.python.org/issue46975

I have indeed brew x86_64 (and arm64) installed and it seems that this somehow interferes. make --version generates this output:

GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...
This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0

shouldn't it be arm64-apple-darwin11.3.0? And is there a way to just use the make from macOS and ignore all the other stuff from brew?

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Answer 2

gernophil OP

Sep ’23

It seems that make (which is the correct make) uses the gettext library from brew. I could uninstall this, but a lot of other packages depend on it. Is there a way to make make ignore this library?

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