On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:08:51PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hmmm... Python 2.7.13 seems to bundle libffi-3.1. Do we want that? The python-minimal package *should* use that libffi. I'm not sure why it's failing now. > Also, I checked libffi/configure: If CONFIG_SHELL was set, it would have picked it up. Do you mean if CONFIG_SHELL is not set, so the build process can't find libffi? There is also the question about zlib and the bundled pip: why is it failing now? I haven't yet found the changes between 2.7.12 and 2.7.13 that are causing these issues.