> On 9 Sep 2022, at 18:07, Ulrich Drepper via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 5:26 PM Iain Sandoe <idsan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> One small request, I realise that Python 2 is dead, but I regularly
>> bootstrap GCC
>> on older machines that only have Python 2 installations. If possible (and
>> it sounds
>> plausible if the job is really quite simple) - it would be good to support
>> those older
>> machines without having to take a detour to find a way to build Python 3
>> on them first.
>>
>
> Would this really be an issue? Just as is the case for the gperf-generated
> files, the repository would contain the generated files and gperf/python
> would only be needed if someone changes those files or explicitly removes
> them.
If that’s the case then no, I handle most update/commit stuff on newer machines
- it is probably a misinterpretation of “this would be needed for bootstrap” in
another part of the thread.
Iain
