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installation of 3.10 and 3.11 failed on LINUX in the script "compileall.py"

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I often installed python but now (for some unknown reason) it failed on LINUX. The problem is the lib/python3.11/compileall.py with 6 sub-fork never end. I stop after 1h30 execution time, I try 3.10 and 3.11.

comment out the block

#       -PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)  $(RUNSHARED) \
#               $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
#               -j0 -d $(LIBDEST) -f \
#               -x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
#               $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
#       -PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
#               $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -O $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
#               -j0 -d $(LIBDEST) -f \
#               -x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
#               $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
#       -PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
#               $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -OO $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
#               -j0 -d $(LIBDEST) -f \
#               -x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
#               $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
#       -PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
#               $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
#               -j0 -d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
#               -x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages
#       -PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
#               $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -O $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
#               -j0 -d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
#               -x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages
#       -PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
#               $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -OO $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
#               -j0 -d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
#               -x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages

helps to install, but the python seems to be broken with startup error on missing parts like.

exec: [1] ;.../bin/python3.11
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Python 3.11.1 (main, Jan 25 2023, 23:48:02) [GCC 11.3.1 20221024 [revision bd0c76a2329e7fe6d6612c2259647bbb67f5866a]] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/etc/pythonstart", line 7, in <module>
    import readline
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'readline'
>>> 

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Start with lib/python3.11/compileall.py and the build-script block that invokes it with -j0 during Linux installation. Reproduce the reported 3.10 or 3.11 build and investigate why the six subprocesses do not finish. Done means the installation completes without commenting out the block and the resulting interpreter can import readline without the reported missing-library startup error.

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