PawPaw Windows will not build on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS because of Python 3.12 using depricated module 'imp'

[Schmitty2005]

Running ./bootstrap-plugins.sh win64 will not build on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS because of depricated Python 3.11 module 'imp' not in Python 3.12
https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/imp.html

I searched the PawPaw source, but could not find a python import for 'imp' within the PawPaw source.

As a workaround this worked :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.11
alias python="python3.11"
./bootstrap-plugins.sh win64

Compiled successfully on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[Inqb8tr-jp]

It doesn't work on my Ubuntu 24.04 WSL on Windows10 because PawPawBuilds/targets/win64/bin/gdbus-codegen has the shebang with the absolute path to #!/usr/bin/python3.

In my case I linked /usr/bin/python3 to $HOME/.pyenv/shims/python3 temporarily.

[falkTX]

I tried to fix this today but I cannot see where the "import imp" comes from, its not on the glib code it seems...

[Inqb8tr-jp]

I think it not for PawPaw, but can't proceed futher.
So I installed python3.11.13 with pyenv and temporarily link /usr/bin/python3 to it.

make[6]: Entering directory '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/builds/win64/glib-2.45.8/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/targets/win64/bin'
 /usr/bin/install -c gdbus-codegen '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/targets/win64/bin'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/targets/win64/share/glib-2.0/codegen'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 __init__.py codegen.py codegen_main.py codegen_docbook.py config.py dbustypes.py parser.py utils.py '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/targets/win64/share/glib-2.0/codegen'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'
make[6]: *** [Makefile:984: install-codegenPYTHON] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/builds/win64/glib-2.45.8/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen'
make[5]: *** [Makefile:1286: install-am] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/builds/win64/glib-2.45.8/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1280: install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/builds/win64/glib-2.45.8/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:4099: install-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/builds/win64/glib-2.45.8/gio'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:4421: install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/builds/win64/glib-2.45.8/gio'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1214: install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/aki/PawPawBuilds/builds/win64/glib-2.45.8'
make: *** [Makefile:1680: install] Error 2
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