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Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.


On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> There are at least several pretty-printing tests which use python, and
> require PExpect, and those run on the host during testing via the
> test-wrapper-env abstraction.

The normal case for tests written using Python is that it runs on the 
build system.  The pretty printers tests are very much an exception 
(they're also an exception in that they use PExpect, rather than the norm 
of being limited to the standad library).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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