Re: patches for python in gub

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Werner LEMBERG writes:

Hi Werner,

> we are in the process of updating gub to contain a more recent python
> version since the current version segfaults with gcc 8 on some
> platforms.
>
> All python versions supported in gub are accompanied with a bunch of
> patch files.  What did you use as the source for those patches, and
> what were the reasons to use them?

IIRC, Han-Wen and I created patches to cross-build python.  Both of us
tried at length to get them upstream.  At the time, upstream found
cross-compiling (esp. to Windows) not a good idea and did not accept
them.

janneke

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