{ cd to cinelerra-gg's source root where autogen.sh is first, I think }
For some reason Fedora 38 does not recognize 3.12 (python --version still says 3.11) so I can not really apply this.
However, Fedora 39 is now available and it has python 3.12 as default. Since this is an experimental partition, I will attempt this tomorrow when my brain is in better shape.