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

* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 08/13/2018 04:29 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Carlos O'Donell:
>> 
>>> It is a question of interest really. Fedora has the technical ability
>>> to deliver a bootstrap that happens routinely, but I don't see the
>>> motivation to do so.
>> 
>> Sorry, this sounds … very unconvincing.
>
> Could you clarify what you were not convinced about? The technical ability
> or lack of motivation?

The ability, both at a technical and organizational level.

>> We can't even do periodic (say weekly) mass rebuilds in Fedora, and we
>> know that there are uses for that, such as generating accurate markup
>> (be it annobin or CET) based on the latest toolchain fixes.
>
> Either we can't do it technically (not true, we can).

I doubt that.  It would be a significant engineering effort.
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