Latest upstream release: 1.12.1 Current version/release in rawhide: 1.11.5-7.fc30 URL: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring Please keep in mind that with any upstream change, there may also be packaging changes that need to be made. Specifically, please remember that it is your responsibility to review the new version to ensure that the licensing is still correct and that no non-free or legally problematic items have been added upstream. Based on the information from anitya: https://release-monitoring.org/project/5536/
Note that 1.12.2 was released and at least that one will be needed for Python 3.8.
Latest upstream release: 1.12.2 Current version/release in rawhide: 1.11.5-7.fc30 URL: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring Please keep in mind that with any upstream change, there may also be packaging changes that need to be made. Specifically, please remember that it is your responsibility to review the new version to ensure that the licensing is still correct and that no non-free or legally problematic items have been added upstream. Based on the information from anitya: https://release-monitoring.org/project/5536/
1.11.5-7 indeed fails with Python 3.8: building '_cffi_backend' extension creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.8 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.8/c gcc -pthread -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fPIC -DUSE__THREAD -DHAVE_SYNC_SYNCHRONIZE -I/usr/include/python3.8m -c c/_cffi_backend.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.8/c/_cffi_backend.o c/_cffi_backend.c: In function ‘b_do_dlopen’: c/_cffi_backend.c:4197:31: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers] 4197 | *p_printable_filename = PyText_AsUTF8(s); | ^ In file included from c/cffi1_module.c:20, from c/_cffi_backend.c:7370: c/call_python.c: In function ‘_get_interpstate_dict’: c/call_python.c:20:30: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘PyInterpreterState’ {aka ‘struct _is’} 20 | builtins = tstate->interp->builtins; | ^~ error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
There's more: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/408/
Updated, will open another bug for the failures in 3.8.