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

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:41:45PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > > > Dmitry, do you wish to make any comments on the use of Python in building 
> > > > glibc?
> > > 
> > > My concern with making python a requirement to build glibc is that it will
> > > pull in more packages not required to build glibc.  If there is a "minimal"
> > > subset of python that does not bring indirect dependencies to glibc build,
> > > and at the same time is sufficient to build glibc, then adding this subset
> > > of python as a requirement to build glibc shouldn't be a problem.
> > > 
> > > I don't know yet whether SUSE or Debian take on the minimal subset pulls
> > > in extra dependencies, I'll check this when time permits.
> > 
> > Any conclusions there?
> > 
> > I'm not sure it really matters for these purposes what a particular 
> > distribution's package pulls in, if they are happy with what works for 
> > them for the distribution build or bootstrap.  The question for us would 
> > be more about what constraints this imposes on distributions in general 
> > (e.g. if it means libffi will be needed for a native build of glibc, 
> > depending on how far the indirect dependencies on ctypes in the Python 
> > standard library go), and whether we are OK with those constraints.  The 
> > dependencies of the minimal distribution packages are simply useful 
> > information for us to help in determining those constraints.
> 
> Ping.  Any conclusion on this question about indirect dependencies 
> introduced by use of Python?

Another ping on this question....

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Joseph S. Myers
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