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Re: Ping^2 Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:20:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: Ping^2 Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
> > I'll take that and try to get an acknowledgment from each of the
> > distributions. I'll email all the maintainers and follow up with
> > them (all on libc-alpha) in a new thread starting with the information
> > you will put together for me.
> >
> > I'll also include some of the resolution about the concerns regarding
> > building python on an old distribution.
>
> Ping? I'd like to be able to move the gen-as-const machinery from awk +
> sed + makefile logic to python + simpler makefile logic, with a view to it
> being the starting point of general python infrastructure for extracting
> constants, macros etc. from C headers (there are various existing tests,
> e.g. for the syscall list and for signal numbers, that could be rewritten
> on top of such shared infrastructure, and I'd like to be able to add a lot
> more tests of consistency with uapi headers using such infrastructure).
Ping^4? Dmitry, Carlos, any other distributors, any further comments on
requiring Python 3.4 (standard library modules not involving external C
library dependencies) or later to build glibc?
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com