%general-entities;]> If you are compiling this package in chroot you must ensure that /dev/shm is mounted. If you do not do this, the Python configuration will fail with a traceback report referencing /usr/lib/pythonN.N/multiprocessing/synchronize.py. As the &root; user, run: mountpoint -q /dev/shm || mount -t tmpfs devshm /dev/shm