Re: Python recompile

On 04/03/2025 11:19, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 10:25:01 +0000
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wibbled:

On 04/03/2025 10:03, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:57:16 +0000
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wibbled:

On 04/03/2025 09:23, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

because plenty of compilation issues are caused by code issues.

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Undoubtedly true, and equally undoubtedly irrelevant in this
case. Were it relevant, the OP would by now have shown us the
problem code.

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So what you're saying is you can't troubleshoot linking problems.

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No, that's not what I'm saying. Do learn to read. What I'm saying

 Sounds like it to me.
 

is that the OP would be better served by posting the problem
statement in a group more closely related to the actual problem.

 Well do feel free to suggest which group might be appropriate for C compilation
issues.

It wasn't a C compilation issue. That is, not a syntax error, not a type error, and no violation of the language rules.
I've also pointed out several times (but have been conveniently ignored) that the same error could be invoked with other languages too.

We may, I trust, presume that the Python source he is building is
production code that has successfully been built before by other
people? If so, then it's not a language issue, and that is enough
to put it beyond comp.lang.c's brief.

 There's zero logical connection there. People experience similar issues all
the time with C, should they all be denied help?

I don't know of any specialist forums. I've suggested others with a broader remit and greater footfall where they might have more chance.
I'm sure someone will have mentioned google, where you search for the error message, since somebody must have encountered it before.
But this particular forum is mostly a bunch of old-timers kicking around the same subjects, and at length. The favourite ones are to do with the C standards minutiae.
Another favourite is telling people things are off-topic. (But when it suits them, there are long sub-threads which are wildly off-topic, not even to do with computers, but which are deemed to be entertaining. I guess linker errors are just not interesting enough!)