From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:13:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87pnnyjmru.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ftowrztr.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvdcji38.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hWplw-0003gn-DP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 May 2019 18:13:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tvdcji38.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 30 May 2019 13:29:47 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Howdy! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> I started looking at what it would take to upgrade glibc to 2.29 on >> =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99. Bad news: it depends on Python. > > I had to check the date. This is for real? It=E2=80=99s not a June 1st prank, I swear! Also note that I did try to pass =E2=80=9Cac_cv_path_PYTHON_PROG=3Dtrue=E2= =80=9D and variants thereof, but it really really needs Python to generate a few things. >> Also, it would be nice to use =E2=80=98python-on-guile=E2=80=99 here, bu= t it doesn=E2=80=99t >> provide a =E2=80=98python=E2=80=99 executable and I don=E2=80=99t know i= f it implements enough >> to run these scripts. > > I=E2=80=99ll take a look at python-on-guile and see if we can run the scr= ipts > with it. That=E2=80=99d be sweet! Ludo=E2=80=99.