[issue33484] build system runs when it merely link

Eitan Adler added the comment: I believe I have removed the regen step from all my patches. I will separately upgrade the generated files (particularly since it is only a minor version bump). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue33484] build system runs when it merely link

R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, we are one of those projects that wants it to be possible to build python without having the tools that generate build artifacts. You will note that we also check in build artifacts that are produced by our own python scripts, to avoid the problem of t

[issue33484] build system runs when it merely link

Eitan Adler added the comment: The unrelated changes are likely due to the "regen" step. I am using newer tools than previously used. It is unclear to me why we include generated files in the repository. Some projects prefer this to avoid the need to have autotools installed on the build mach

[issue33484] build system runs when it merely link

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks for wanting to improve Python. Your PR seems to contain quite a few changes that aren't obviously related to your topic. As for the topic, I know there are at least some cases where we really do have to *run* the code to prove the function is support

[issue33484] build system runs when it merely link

Change by Eitan Adler : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6468 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue33484] build system runs when it merely link

New submission from Eitan Adler : The build system attempts to run certain test code when it can actually just link the code. This is a minor performance optimization but is really a semantic correctness issue. -- components: Build messages: 316471 nosy: eitan.adler priority: normal se