Re: rebuilding python pip from source

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 04:57 -0700, Doug Henderson wrote:
> I am trying to rebuild the python37-pip package from source.
> Checking source in setup gives me /usr/src/python-pip-19.0.2-1.src/
> When I try to build the package I get an error:
> 
>     $ cygport python-pip.cygport all
>     *** ERROR: python27-pip is required to build this package
> 
> Initially I got errors saying python36-pip, etc. were required, so I
> installed the binary and source packages for them, but there is no
> python27-pip or python2-pip package available to install.

There is: https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/python27-pip/

> Ultimately I intend to completely rebuild from source both Python 2.7 and 3.7
> and all the other packages named "^python.*".

To what end?

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Yaakov