Hi Konrad, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> skribis:
> There is an interesting issue left for me to explore, which is why > Python 2.4 compiled with today's gcc has a bug that it definitely didn't > have back then. It's probably related to the many intentional > ambiguities in the C language standard, check out John Regehr's blog > (https://blog.regehr.org/) for interesting examples. That could become a > selling point for Guix because we have the option of compiling old > software with old compilers, which is hard with other infrastructures. Apologies for the delay. What was this bug exactly? I know Bonface addressed an issue related to how the Python 2.4 build system would capture the kernel version via ‘uname’ a build time: https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past/-/commit/d1977f5dccd73341f363cfa8d58ae3f2b2700ad7 But presumably you’re referring to something else, right? Thanks, Ludo’.