Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: >> I started looking at what it would take to upgrade glibc to 2.29 on >> ‘core-updates’. Bad news: it depends on Python. > > I had to check the date. This is for real?
It's for real: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Changes to build and runtime requirements: * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2019/msg00000.html AFAIU the relevant patch is https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=c6982f7efc1c70fe2d6160a87ee44d871ac85ab0 Before that commit «Python is (was) required to build the GNU C Library manual and to run some tests.» (and AFAIU tests was skipped if Python was not available in the build environment) [...] Viva Guix! Gio'. -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures
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