First failure: https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/10/builds/2507 Running the test suite fails with "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_socket'". Example of (dynamic) linker issue: *** WARNING: renaming "_socket" since importing it failed: 0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for build/lib.aix-7.2-3.8-pydebug/_socket.so because: 0509-136 Symbol PyCapsule_New (number 8) is not exported from dependent module python. 0509-136 Symbol PyErr_CheckSignals (number 9) is not exported from dependent module python. 0509-136 Symbol PyErr_Clear (number 10) is not exported from dependent module python. 0509-136 Symbol PyErr_ExceptionMatches (number 11) is not exported from dependent module python. 0509-136 Symbol PyErr_Fetch (number 12) is not exported from dependent module python. 0509-136 Symbol PyErr_Format (number 13) is not exported from dependent module python. 0509-021 Additional errors occurred but are not reported. 0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the 'dump -Tv' command. IMHO it's a regression caused by my commit 8c3ecc6bacc8d0cd534f2b5b53ed962dd1368c7b for bpo-21536. I guess that
David, Michael: Is one of you able to reproduce this issue? If yes, would you mind to test my PR 13004 to validate that it fix the issue? Michael: Your useername "aixtools@gmail.com" on bugs.python.org is surprising. Maybe you should strip "@gmail.com" from it.
David Bolen: Oops, right, I was looking for David Edelsohn :-) David Edelsohn: Are you able to reproduce this issue? If yes, would you mind to test my PR 13004 to validate that it fix the issue?