Greg Watson gwatson@lanl.gov writes:
At 2:56 PM -0600 4/8/03, ron minnich wrote:
On 4 Aug 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Previously when we had this conversation we tried for a minimum python of 1.5 and the old config tool manages that. We may need to bump the python requirement but we this needs investigation to see why the earlier versions of python have problems.
we're going to have to bump minimums anyway. romcc fails for me on RH 7.3.
Hmm. I will take a look later. But my default compiler is 2.95.4 and I believe romcc still compiles with that. Dropping egcs-2.91.66 is unfortunate but livable. With compilers and even more so with binutils pushing the requirements is not a big deal as it is necessary to support the newest hardware.
We have no innate requirement for python which makes me worry much more about pushing the version.
It'll have to be version 2.0 at a minimum since yapps (and config.g) depends on some 2.0 features. It maybe a later version depending on what Eric's problem turns out to be.
Hopefully we can track that down. A few weeks ago it worked with my version 2.1 of python.
Eric