Hi Ian,

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:35:45 -0700 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 4:05 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > I installed python3-setuptools.  
> 
> Thanks, could you give more details? Are you overriding python to be
> an older version on the command line? What does "python --version" and
> "python3 --version" show? Installing python3-setuptools should be what
> you need, but I'm not sure why that's not working for you.

I am not doing anything unusual.  What I meant was "To fix this, I
installed python3-setuptools as I did not have it installed before".
It built fine once I installed that.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell