[Python-Dev] zapped several unsupported bits good time to test (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 11 01:59:44 EST 2004

Armin Rigo wrote:

This looks like an artificial additional burden for someone who is really trying to install a couple of things on an old machine (like I did recently) and who only cares about Python for setting up a couple of simple things. I can't think of anything in the source that would prevent Python from compiling and running smoothly on almost any version of libc -- maybe there is, but then issue a warning if you like but just let me compile the damn thing so that I can proceed to whatever else I was trying to compile Python for in the first place :-)

So are you volunteering to deal with the libc5-related bug reports? Currently, it appears we have 881812, 880996; 463576 was closed as "won't fix". As you can see from these reports, Python won't even build on these systems.

Regards, Martin

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