Scallyweg and python3

[Jon Turney]

On 03/07/2022 16:58, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> can you look on the build failure for hexchat ?
> 
> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/runs/7169187681?check_suite_focus=true
> 
> scallywag: build dependencies (from BUILD_REQUIRES): 
> cmake,iso-codes-devel,libcanberra-devel,libdbus-glib_1-devel,libglib2.0-devel,libgtk2.0-devel,libnotify-devel,libproxy-devel,libssl-devel,luajit-devel,meson,perl_base,pkg-config,python39-devel,xorg-server-devel 
> 
> 
> that should pull alternatives:
> 
> $ cygcheck-dep -qr python39-devel
>   python39-devel: requires ( alternatives bash libcrypt-devel 
> libintl-devel pkg-config python39 python39-setuptools )
> 
> and create python3
> 
> $ cygcheck -l python39 | grep "etc/po"
> /etc/postinstall/python39.sh
> 
> 
> but I see:
> 
> Run-time dependency python3 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and sysconfig)
> plugins/python/meson.build:3:2: ERROR: Dependency "python3" not found, 
> tried pkgconfig and sysconfig

I think with pkgconfig, this is looking for 'python3.pc', not 'python3'.

That is provided by python3-devel (as a link to python39.pc), which 
isn't installed here?