Re: Ping^2 Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:20:45PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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?

Thanks, I think this should be fine for us, too.


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