From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Pre-compiled .exe-files for other target-plaforms Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:47:18 -0400 Message-ID: <20161002184718.GA32233@jasmine> References: <57F0CBD9.4060903@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqlnQ-00052m-QZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:47:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqlnM-0006e4-Fi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:47:31 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:50978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqlnL-0006bZ-9Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:47:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57F0CBD9.4060903@crazy-compilers.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > I discovered that Python setuptools includes pre-compiled .exe files. > First I thought, these can be savely removed from the source. But when I > researched on this, I found [1] saying: " These installers can even be > created on Unix platforms or Mac OS X." > > This means, these .exe files have to be included in our distribution, > too. (One may still need to ask the Python developers, resp. the > setuptools developers whether this is true and how this is supposed to > work.) > > Normally we remove all pre-compliled stuff, don't we? So how should we > handle this case? We would need to cross-build these .exe files., which > are available for x86, amd64 and arm. It doesn't look like these binary files get installed in our setuptools package; they are present in the source code. Do they get compiled into the setuptools that we build? If not it seems safe to remove them in an origin snippet.