Failed tests when compiling Python 3.7.4 on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

Since the newest python is not available from my package repository, I tried to build and install Python 3.7.4 from source. I would like to build with optimization, so I ran the following:

./configure --enable-optimizations
make
make test

test_readline fails with the following error message:

AttributeError: module 'readline' has no attribute '_READLINE_VERSION'

I do not know how to address this issue. Please enlighten me.

I also discovered that the interactive interpreter (after running make) causes a segfault after reading a line of input. The fault happens at myreadline.c:377. My debugger also told me that `FILE* sys_stdin` and `FILE* sys_stdout` passed into `PyOS_Readline` were optimized out. — HackerBoss, Sep 12 '19 at 00:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '19 at 02:27

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It turned out to be an issue with readline. I resolved this issue by uninstalling readline and installing gnureadline instead, as noted here.

answered Sep 12 '19 at 02:27

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Failed tests when compiling Python 3.7.4 on Ubuntu 18.04

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