Fix build with Python 3 scons. Patch taken from Arch Linux: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/serf/trunk/scons-python3.patch --- serf-1.3.9/SConstruct.orig 2019-07-26 17:49:30.910189251 +0000 +++ serf-1.3.9/SConstruct 2019-07-26 17:49:54.073821735 +0000 @@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ suffix='.def', src_suffix='.h') }) -match = re.search('SERF_MAJOR_VERSION ([0-9]+).*' - 'SERF_MINOR_VERSION ([0-9]+).*' - 'SERF_PATCH_VERSION ([0-9]+)', +match = re.search(b'SERF_MAJOR_VERSION ([0-9]+).*' + b'SERF_MINOR_VERSION ([0-9]+).*' + b'SERF_PATCH_VERSION ([0-9]+)', env.File('serf.h').get_contents(), re.DOTALL) MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH = [int(x) for x in match.groups()] @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ unknown = opts.UnknownVariables() if unknown: - print 'Warning: Used unknown variables:', ', '.join(unknown.keys()) + print ('Warning: Used unknown variables:', ', '.join(unknown.keys())) apr = str(env['APR']) apu = str(env['APU'])