Build failure: pkgsCross.mingwW64.python3

[greg-hellings]

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix build "nixpkgs#pkgsCross.mingwW64.python3 -- this builds Python 3.12.6 at the time of submission
2. nix build "nixpkgs#pkgsCross.mingwW64.python311 -- this builds Python 3.11.10 at the time of submission

Build log

<other output>
       > patching file configure.ac
       > Hunk #1 succeeded at 940 (offset 4 lines).
       > applying patch /nix/store/vjpajc2ww5m4yypsh9yrb0im83jw01cx-mingw-python-patches/*.patch
       > /nix/store/3qg526kqkpzgd2ggaj6knzwzxsiyhck9-stdenv-linux/setup: line 1361: /nix/store/vjpajc2ww5m4yypsh9yrb0im83jw01cx-mingw-python-patches/*.patch: No such file or directory

Additional context

This stems from the package trying to do shell expansion in a Nix array:

• in [
• "${mingw-patch}/*.patch"
• ]);

Notify maintainers

The whole Python team?

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.57, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20241020.1997e4a`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.24.9`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/dyzl40h25l04565n90psbhzgnc5vp2xr-source`

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