Cannot correctly build the whl file for Python 3.12.

[sun1638650145]

The tensorflow has started providing pre-compiled whl for Python 3.12 since version 2.16. When will we start providing them? Currently, bazel reports a missing requirement_lock_3_12.txt file.

[stefan-it]

Yeah, bazel is so much pain (this whole build system will hopefully get deprecated one day)!

[DwarKapex]

I also tried to build tf-text from source with requirement_lock_3_11.txt. But it failed with error cannot import distutils:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/85e1e75b08f730f1cb0a39e292604ff5/execroot/org_tensorflow_text/bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/oss_scripts/pip_package/tensorflow_build_info.runfiles/org_tensorflow_text/oss_scripts/pip_package/tensorflow_build_info.py", line 33, in <module>
   import tensorflow as tf
   File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/85e1e75b08f730f1cb0a39e292604ff5/execroot/org_tensorflow_text/bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/oss_scripts/pip_package/tensorflow_build_info.runfiles/pypi_tensorflow/site-packages/tensorflow/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
   import distutils as _distutils
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

@stefan-it Do you by any chance who to force bazel to use python from venv?
[UPD] Installing distuilts via pip install setuptools does not help at all.