On 03/04/2019 22:49, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > On 02/04/2019 22:21, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: >> On 29/03/2019 11:16, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: >>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 14:35, James B via lfs-dev >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> And then Python (which meson depends on) isn't exactly straightforward to >>>> bootstrap, >>>> and doubly so for multilib environments. >>> >>> Well, don't forget that someone in GLibc-land decied that they should >>> make building >>> GLibc dependent on Python3, after it have never been subservient to an >>> interpreter >>> before, >> >> You sure? I think it has been using perl for years. Maybe perl is not >> required >> anymore now (need to test). > > As a matter of fact, perl is no more required for building glibc. More tests > are said to fail, though (28 FAIL instead of 4, out of more than 5400). >
For the record: the 24 tests that fail, all fail because they run "mtrace", which is a perl script. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
