Bug 2069657

Summary: nest fails to build with Python 3.11: error: cannot convert 'PyObject*' {aka '_object*'} to 'PyTracebackObject*' {aka '_traceback*'} in assignment
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomáš Hrnčiar <thrnciar>
Component: nestAssignee: Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) <sanjay.ankur>
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Description Tomáš Hrnčiar 2022-03-29 12:05:03 UTC
nest fails to build with Python 3.11.0a6.

/builddir/build/BUILD/nest-simulator-3.2/nest-simulator-3.2/pynest/pynestkernel.cxx: In function 'PyObject* __Pyx_Coroutine_SendEx(__pyx_CoroutineObject*, PyObject*, int)':
/builddir/build/BUILD/nest-simulator-3.2/nest-simulator-3.2/pynest/pynestkernel.cxx:36535:42: error: cannot convert 'PyObject*' {aka '_object*'} to 'PyTracebackObject*' {aka '_traceback*'} in assignment
36535 |         tb = __Pyx__ExceptionGetTraceback(exc_state->exc_value);
      |              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                          |
      |                                          PyObject* {aka _object*}
make[2]: *** [pynest/CMakeFiles/pynestkernel.dir/build.make:84: pynest/CMakeFiles/pynestkernel.dir/pynestkernel.cxx.o] Error 1

The interpreter state’s representation of handled exceptions (a.k.a exc_info, or _PyErr_StackItem) now has only the exc_value field, exc_type and exc_traceback have been removed as their values can be derived from exc_value. (Contributed by Irit Katriel in bpo-45711.)

https://bugs.python.org/issue45711
https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html

For the build logs, see:
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@python/python3.11/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/03845575-nest/

For all our attempts to build nest with Python 3.11, see:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.11/package/nest/

Testing and mass rebuild of packages is happening in copr. You can follow these instructions to test locally in mock if your package builds with Python 3.11:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.11/

Let us know here if you have any questions.

Python 3.11 is planned to be included in Fedora 37. To make that update smoother, we're building Fedora packages with all pre-releases of Python 3.11.
A build failure prevents us from testing all dependent packages (transitive [Build]Requires), so if this package is required a lot, it's important for us to get it fixed soon.
We'd appreciate help from the people who know this package best, but if you don't want to work on this now, let us know so we can try to work around it on our side.

Comment 1 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2022-05-09 13:31:13 UTC
Reported upstream:

https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/issues/2390

Comment 2 Miro Hrončok 2022-06-22 11:49:14 UTC
Closing this in bulk as it built with Python 3.11. If this needs to remain open for a followup, feel free to reopen, I won't close in bulk again.