Re: core-updates: Python build failures

[Ludovic Courtès]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 08:50:32PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>>> I tried applying the upstream fix for 3.5:
>>> 
>>> https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/337461574c90
>>> 
>>> However, the monster patch does not apply.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Will try to dig out the other patches from 3.5 branch that this depends
>>> on tomorrow. I can't reproduce the getentropy() failure either,
>>> apparently it only occurs on kernels < 3.17.
>>
>> Maybe we should update Python 3.5 instead, so that the patch applies. Or
>> update the kernels on the build farm machines.

In general, our packages should work with kernels as old as 2.6.32,
since that’s what we build glibc against (via ‘--enable-kernel’).
(We should probably bump to something a bit newer though.)

> Oh, I missed that 3.5.3 is out. After updating, the patch applied.
>
> I've pushed the Python update and the getentropy() fix as
> 343cee8af and e4d34cd0 respectively.

Awesome, thanks!

I started an evaluation of core-updates, we’ll see how it goes:

  https://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/core-updates#tabs-evaluations

Ludo’.