Hi Adhemerval,

> On 08/11/2021 13:59, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> >   
> >> The same approach (with using the 'distro' python module) can be
> >> applied to Fedora or Suse.  
> > 
> > That module isn't part of the Python standard library.  I don't
> > think we should introduce a dependency on it; rather, any use of it
> > should be appropriately conditional, so the code still runs
> > (without these checks) if the module is unavailable (importing
> > produces an ImportError).
> > 
> > In particular, even if the OS Python installation includes that
> > module, the script should work with a separately built copy of
> > Python without any such modules from the OS.  
> 
> Maybe add a check without tying to any distribution (tool -v and some
> version parsing).

This would require some extra, work but then we would avoid 'distro'
module as the dependency.

> 
> >   
> >> +def check_os_requirements():
> >> +    if distro.id() == "debian" and distro.version() == "10":
> >> +        # List 'Debian' specific packages requirements (different
> >> than
> >> +        # vanila distro) to run this test without errors.
> >> +        debian_requirements = ['flex', 'bison', 'dnsutils',
> >> 'texinfo']  
> > 
> > Why is dnsutils needed?  
> 
> Also, strictly to build and check 'texinfo' is not required either.

if makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I
"/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/src/binutils/binutils/doc" -I
"/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/src/binutils/binutils/../libiberty" -I
"/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/src/binutils/binutils/../bfd/doc" -I
../../bfd/doc --no-split  -I
/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/src/binutils/binutils/doc \ -o
binutils.info `test -f 'binutils.texi' || echo
'/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/src/binutils/binutils/doc/'`binutils.texi;
\ then \ rc=0; \ else \ rc=$?; \ $restore $backupdir/* `echo
"./binutils.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \ fi; \ rm -rf $backupdir; exit
$rc
/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/src/binutils/binutils/doc/binutils.texi:871:
warning: @ref node name should not contain `.'
/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/src/binutils/binutils/doc/binutils.texi:1329:
warning: @xref node name should not contain `.' make[4]: Leaving
directory
'/work/wd/glibc/glibc-many-build/build/compilers/powerpc64-linux-gnu/binutils/binutils/doc'
Making info in po make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'info'. make[4]:
Nothing to be done for 'info-am'. make[2]: *** [Makefile:3701:
all-binutils] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... 


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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