Philippe Ombredanne

@DennisClark Thanks... that's super useful to track this issue.

The bug is fixed and we are keeping this open to ensure we can report more useful data.

Thank for the report . Sorry for this bug! There is likely some heisenbug-like condition in Python pip which I am tracking down.... Unless this is a macOS 12 issue?...

I was just filling this https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/10824

@DennisClark Thanks @lucasgonze the short term workaround should be this, once the `./scancode --help` above failed: 1. run `source bin/activate` 2. run `pip install --editable .` (This will fetch wheels...

@lucasgonze I want to keep this open until we have a proper fix with pip

This is solved in https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/pull/3053 and will be released with v31. Thanks!

This needs to be fixed in the next release

This is solved in https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/pull/3053 Thanks!

@GitaWei Thanks! and good catch! Are you sure you use `-n 500` ? this would be spawning 500 parallel processes meaning you have likely 500 CPU core on hand to...