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Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual


On 08/13/2018 08:46 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Aug 09 2018, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 
>> patch.)  Note that this introduces a Python dependency for building
>> the manual, which is thus noted in install.texi and NEWS.
> 
> This would add python to the bootstrap cycle which is a big problem.

Why is this a big problem?

Can you expand on your particular use case?

Even in Fedora where we do stage1/2/3 boostrapping, we have to build
glibc much later to enable manual building because we haven't yet
built the tex packages.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.


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