[PATCH] ci: Check for necessary Debian packages when running build-many-glibcs.py

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Nov 8 19:03:46 GMT 2021


* Joseph Myers:

> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
>> I would recommend searching for required tools on PATH, using
>> shutil.which.  This should work on any distribution.  If I recall
>> correctly, the non-obvious tools are:
>> 
>> bison
>> flex
>> git
>> makeinfo
>> patch
>> tar
>
> What needs patch?

gnumach, see its configure.ac towards the end (“The remaining ugly, dark
corners”).  It patches the just-generated config.status file.

Thanks,
Florian



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