[Python-Dev] asdl.py and Python-ast.[hc]

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:43:48 -0400
Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2013/9/26 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 2013/9/26 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > Earlier this morning I had a slight tackle with a couple of the 3.4 bots
> >> > (sorry everyone!). I fixed some problems in asdl.py -
> >> > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/21d46e3ae60c - and used the 'with'
> >> > statement. Some bots don't have Python 2.6+ and couldn't bootstrap
> >> > Python-ast.h/c
> >> >
> >> > Two questions:
> >> >
> >> > * Should I always check-in Python-ast.h and Python-ast.c when I touch
> >> > asdl*
> >> > ? The generated files are unchanged, it's only the timestamp that
> >> > changed.
> >> > * Can we, in theory, use new Pythons for asdl* code, because
> >> > Python-ast.*
> >> > are, in fact, checked in so they don't have to be rebuilt by the bots or
> >> > users?
> >>
> >> We should have the buildbots run "make touch", so they don't need to
> >> run asdl_c.py.
> >
> >
> > How should we go about doing this?
> 
> Complain to Antoine I suppose. :)

Here you are:
http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Snow%20Leop%203.x/builds/28/steps/compile/logs/stdio

Of course, when it's using "-jN" there may be a race condition :-)

Regards

Antoine.