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

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Aug 14 13:20:00 GMT 2018


On Aug 14 2018, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:

> Let me ask you: how many other packages (besides glibc) in the
> bootstrap depend on Perl?  Is it within our reach, perhaps, to
> *replace* Perl with Python?

You would need to rewrite autoconf and automake in python.  Also, a lot
of testsuites are using perl.  Perl is ubiquitous, whereas python is
used almost nowhere.

Andreas.

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