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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:29:00 -0000
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
To: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, mliska@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage
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Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net> writes:

> > On Jul 18, 2018, at 11:13 AM, Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder what will be the expected way to obtain a suitable version of
> > Python if one is not available on the build machine? With awk I can
> > build it from source pretty much anywhere. Is building newer versions
> > of Python on older targets a similarly straightforward process (somehow
> > I doubt it)? What about Windows?
> 
> It's the same sort of thing: untar the sources, configure, make, make
> install.

Will this also install all the Python packages one might plausible want
to use in GCC?