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Automake cannot be installed , help will be highly appreciated

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From: nebulaaksum <nebulaaksum <at> protonmail.com>
To: "bug-automake <at> gnu.org" <bug-automake <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Automake cannot be installed , help will be highly appreciated
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:23:46 +0000

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Dear Automake,
I have been battling to install automake the whole day, but no lack.
Please help me on this.

With my best regards

MIke

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: nebulaaksum <at> protonmail.com
Cc: 67673 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67673: Automake cannot be installed ,
 help will be highly appreciated
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 09:56:11 -0700

    nobase-python: running python -V
    Python 3.12.0
    ...
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'

Looks like the failing tests are all Python-related, at least several
with the above error. I don't think Python 3.12 was even released at the
time of automake 1.16.5. I don't know what exactly is going wrong, but
there has been quite a bit of work on the Python support for the next
release.

If you don't need Python support, you can just ignore the failing tests
and go ahead and install automake anyway.

If you do need Python support, I can only suggest trying the
development source. I hope we will have at least a pretest ready soon,
but nothing is available yet.
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/automake/

Hope this helps,
Karl

Message #11 received at 67673 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: 67673 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67673: Automake cannot be installed ,
 help will be highly appreciated
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 19:40:50 -0700

Mike wrote me separately to say the problem eventually fixed itself for
no evident reason :(. Maybe related to our general timing issue? 
Anyway, closing. --thanks, karl.

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