Building Python 3 on old distributions

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Saturday 08 September 2018 03:35 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Existing tests also use shutil, tempfile, collections, string - I see no
> reason why those should be problematic for the glibc build either (and
> there are enough modules of generic use in the standard library, without
> dependencies on external C libraries, that I'm wary of trying to produce a
> short list of modules that are OK in glibc build scripts).

OK, what I mean to suggest is a way to avoid using arbitrary python 
modules for these scripts (matplotlib for example).  If a short list is 
too cumbersome then we'll just need to be very careful about it during 
our reviews and specifically mention this caveat somewhere, maybe in a 
README in $(srcdir)/scripts/.

Siddhesh