Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:38:15AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > It is possible that the build *and* host require python 3.4. > > The reason being that when cross-testing glibc with the test-wrapper-env > script the build system may execute a command on the host system to > run python (which

Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-22 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 7:15 AM Helmut Grohne wrote: > Daniel Schepler is working on a native bootstrap approach. As far as I > understand, he natively bootstraps Debian from non-Debian (same > processor architecure and kernel). I expect that his work will be > impacted by the proposed change.

Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-22 Thread Joseph Myers
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > There are at least several pretty-printing tests which use python, and > require PExpect, and those run on the host during testing via the > test-wrapper-env abstraction. The normal case for tests written using Python is that it runs on the build

Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-22 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 10/22/18 10:15 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:51:25AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> On 2018-10-19 09:47, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> This proposal is to being circulated to all the distribution >>> maintainers to gain their acceptance surrounding the use of >>> python

Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:51:25AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2018-10-19 09:47, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > This proposal is to being circulated to all the distribution > > maintainers to gain their acceptance surrounding the use of > > python 3.4 or greater for building glibc. > > > >

Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

2018-10-22 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi Carlos, hi all, On 2018-10-19 09:47, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > This proposal is to being circulated to all the distribution > maintainers to gain their acceptance surrounding the use of > python 3.4 or greater for building glibc. > > There has been concern expressed that requiring python 3.4 >