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Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual
On 08/14/2018 09:03 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Aug 14 2018, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> That already exists, it is called python{3}-base.
What is your incremental cost to adding python3-base to the bootstrap?
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Cheers,
Carlos.