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Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Aug 13 2018, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm impressed, you've done a really good job keeping this minimal, but what's
> > the problem with including python here?
>
> We want to keep the cycle as small as possible. For example, even
> though rpmlint is included in every build root and it is written in
> python, it is not part of the bootstrap cycle because it is replaced by
> a special package rpmlint-mini that contains copies of the python files
> and dependencies from the rpmlint package. That shows how important it
> is to keep python out of the equation.
Given that you're already using special different packages in this
bootstrap cycle, a special minimum python package is the obvious way to
deal with uses in the glibc build.
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Joseph S. Myers
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