Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Aug 14 12:57:00 GMT 2018


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
joseph@codesourcery.com



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