Scott Talbert

See #1067, it seems to be the same issue. You might be able to do a hacky workaround by symlinking lib64 to lib while wxWidgets is building.

> So the issue has been existing for five years and hasn't been resolved yet…? Unfortunately, yes. As with many projects, the number of bugs approaches infinity, while the number...

I hate to say it but I think you're wasting time going down that path. I'd suggest just starting a wxPython install, then while wxWidgets is building, figure out the...

Yes, I'm not suggesting that's a permanent solution, just a workaround. As far as fixing the root of the issue, can you please provide the output of `cat /etc/os-release` and...

Thank you for the package list. The good news is that I was able to reproduce it with that information. The problem is reproducible if the `python3-wxPython` package is installed....

OK, so I lied. This has nothing to do with the `python3-wxPython` package. In fact, it has to do with the `site-config` package which gets installed when you install `make`....

Reported upstream: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/23737

Thank you for the very excellent and thorough bug report. Unfortunately, this seems to be an upstream issue in wxWidgets introduced by https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/6e556d4a71d3c9cc5982902d04d15f000e128d20.

Upstream issue has a patch that seems to resolve the issue: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/18430

Can you confirm that #2453 fixes the issue?