From: Iain Sandoe <idsandoe@googlemail.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] database with API information
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 18:13:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E35A1EB9-44C4-47CD-AB66-F8E576DF8259@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP3s5k9UdWfgChPhRah1rQ2M13ZocbCOA-vdN4M6GdbTV=Jm3A@mail.gmail.com>
> 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 <idsandoe@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-09 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-07 6:22 Ulrich Drepper
2022-09-07 10:56 ` Richard Sandiford
2022-09-07 12:33 ` Martin Liška
2022-09-09 15:26 ` Iain Sandoe
2022-09-09 17:07 ` Ulrich Drepper
2022-09-09 17:13 ` Iain Sandoe [this message]
2022-09-09 11:40 ` SAIFI
2022-09-09 11:47 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-09-09 12:29 ` SAIFI
2022-09-09 15:06 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-09-09 16:41 ` SAIFI
2022-09-09 18:21 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-09-09 18:40 ` SAIFI
2022-09-09 20:05 ` Jonathan Wakely
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