BIND 9.12.4 python error building on MacOS

[Larry Stone]

Thanks.

A simple
$ sudo python -m ensure pip —default-pip
$ sudo pip install —upgrade-pip
$ sudo pip install ply
took care of it.

-- 
Larry Stone
lstone19 at stonejongleux.com





> On Mar 1, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> 
> We had a bug report that dnssec-checkds, dnssec-coverage and dnssec-keymgr where not
> being installed by default and yes, that is a bug.  You can choose not to install
> them by specifying -—with-python=no to configure.
> 
> The configure message is saying that you don’t have the “ply" python module installed.
> You need to install it.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
>> On 2 Mar 2019, at 7:13 am, Larry Stone <lstone19 at stonejongleux.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m trying to build the just released BIND 9.12.4 on a Macintosh running Mojave (10.14.3). Same results on one running High Sierra (10.13.6).
>> 
>> Running configure, I get an error checking for python:
>> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
>> checking if /usr/bin/python is python2 version >= 2.7 or python3 version >= 3.2... yes
>> checking Python module 'argparse'... yes
>> checking Python module 'ply'... no
>> checking for python3... no
>> checking for python3.7... no
>> checking for python3.6... no
>> checking for python3.5... no
>> checking for python3.4... no
>> checking for python3.3... no
>> checking for python3.2... no
>> checking for python2... no
>> checking for python2.7... /usr/bin/python2.7
>> checking if /usr/bin/python2.7 is python2 version >= 2.7 or python3 version >= 3.2... yes
>> checking Python module 'argparse'... yes
>> checking Python module 'ply'... no
>> checking for Python support... no
>> configure: error: Python required for dnssec-keymgr
>> 
>> If I try the same thing with 9.12.3-P4, it configures OK. The relevant output is:
>> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
>> checking python2 version >= 2.7 or python3 version >= 3.2... found
>> checking python module 'argparse'... found
>> checking python module 'ply'... not found
>> checking for python3... no
>> checking for python3.5... no
>> checking for python3.4... no
>> checking for python3.3... no
>> checking for python3.2... no
>> checking for python2... no
>> checking for python2.7... /usr/bin/python2.7
>> checking python2 version >= 2.7 or python3 version >= 3.2... found
>> checking python module 'argparse'... found
>> checking python module 'ply'... not found
>> checking for python support... disabled
>> 
>> /usr/bin/python -V returns Python 2.7.10. I don’t know why even for 9.12.3-P4 which configures OK it says python support … disabled.
>> 
>> I’m not seeing anything in the Release Notes about a change in Python requirements. Python is the version distributed with MacOS by Apple.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Larry Stone
>> lstone19 at stonejongleux.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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