1835215 - Firefox-113.0.2 and python-3.12 compatibility issue: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1747908

(Firefox Build System :: Mach Core, defect)

Description

[Joonas Niilola]

Steps to reproduce:

Try to compile the latest release, 113.0.2, with python-3.12 and

export PIP_NETWORK_INSTALL_RESTRICTED_VIRTUALENVS=mach
export MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE="none"

Actual results:

Build fails to:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-113.0.2/work/firefox-113.0.2/./mach", line 125, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-113.0.2/work/firefox-113.0.2/./mach", line 117, in main
    mach = check_and_get_mach(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-113.0.2/work/firefox-113.0.2/./mach", line 37, in check_and_get_mach
    return load_mach(dir_path, mach_path)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-113.0.2/work/firefox-113.0.2/./mach", line 23, in load_mach
    return mach_initialize.initialize(dir_path)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-113.0.2/work/firefox-113.0.2/build/mach_initialize.py", line 153, in initialize
    import mach.main
  File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-113.0.2/work/firefox-113.0.2/python/mach/mach/main.py", line 11, in <module>
    import imp
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp'
 * ERROR: www-client/firefox-113.0.2 failed (configure phase):

This site https://docs.python.org/3/library/imp.html says imp has been removed from python 3.12.

Expected results:

Build should succeed as it does with python-3.11.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox Build System::Mach Core' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.