On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 12:34 Markus Geimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/30/19 12:03 PM, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > > On 22/07/2019 21:23, Mikael Öhman wrote: > >> > >> It's not like the python module couldn't load the binutils it was > >> built with, it's just not done like that. > > > > The problem Alastair ran into actually shows that binutils should be > > considered a runtime dependency of Python (or actually, of pip which is > > included with Python) rather than only a build dependency. > > But isn't that the case for everything else built with GCCcore? > Also my thought, but I also don't think there would be any harm even to just add it to Python. Maybe also Perl? I assume it has some similar build tool (?) > > That should be a fairly easy change to make, without much impact > elsewhere? > > Assume you first load Python @ GCCcore, which implicitly loads binutils > built with dummy. Not if we put it as a dep in Python, it would explicitly load the same binutils that the corresponding toolchains load.

