08:15 <phlebas> am I right translating pypy3 these days still needs python2.7 venv with pycparser and cffi?

08:20 <mattip> yes

08:21 <tumbleweed> But you can cheat and use the pycparser that pypy3 vendors: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pypy3/-/blob/debian/debian/scripts/translate.sh#L126

08:21 <tumbleweed> err, I don't think you actually need cffi, just pycparser

08:24 <phlebas> ok. I'm trying to translate on CentOS 6, for which there don't seem to be any binaries of recent releases, so I'm trying with the python 2.7.18 I have available there :)

09:07 <mattip> I don't think we support that anymore. You should use at least CentOS 7, there may be incompatibilities with the older glibc in CentOS6

09:08 <mattip> CentOS6 went EOL in Nov 2020

09:40 <phlebas> mattip: I know, but our CI slaves are still on 6 :)

09:43 <phlebas> or images based on RHEL 6, which enterprise customers can still by extended support for

10:02 <mattip> you could use the last CentOS 6 - compatible pypy2, which I think is 7.3.4 at https://downloads.python.org/pypy/

10:03 <mattip> released 04.2021

10:04 <mattip> https://github.com/pypy/pypy.org/blob/01344d4b0d8a7337ae79431ae3316c81b22edb90/pages/download_advanced.rst

10:49 <Dejan> RockyLinux ftw!

12:51 <phlebas> mattip: thanks for the help, I got it all to build now. the urls in the build_cffi_imports.py script for the 3.9-v7.3.9 don't work anymore. http://artfiles.org/openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1n.tar.gz was moved to http://artfiles.org/openssl.org/source/old/1.1.1/openssl-1.1.1n.tar.gz (similar for 3.0.1)

12:53 <mattip> right, sorry

12:53 <mattip> that is pypy issue 3737 https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/pypy/-/issues/3737

12:54 <mattip> you probably don't want to embed the dependencies

12:56 <mattip> so you should remove the `--embed-dependencies` option from pypy/goal/targetpypystandalone.py

12:56 <mattip> then the cffi build will link with whatever openssh you have in your system