[llvm-dev] Can lit be upgraded to assume Python 2.7?

[Sean Silva via llvm-dev]

Still haven't gotten around to this, but just now I've randomly run into
`set(Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS 2.7 2.6 2.5)` in compiler-rt/CMakeLists.txt
I assume that can be nuked too?

-- Sean Silva

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great! I'll circle around to this at some point. Despite the "obvious"
> nature of it I still am wary of underestimating the cruftiness of the
> buildbots, so I'll probably do it some time at night when the bots are
> mostly green so that I can easily see if any bots *are* broken by this.
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Chris Matthews <chris.matthews at apple.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This sounds like a good idea to me!  I can’t think of any common platform
>> where you can’t get 2.7.  Lets get rid of that legacy cruft!
>>
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Seems reasonable to me. Chris?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 8:40 PM Sean Silva via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> In the root llvm/CMakeLists.txt we have:
>>>
>>> if( ${PYTHON_VERSION_STRING} VERSION_LESS 2.7 )
>>>   message(FATAL_ERROR "Python 2.7 or newer is required")
>>> endif()
>>>
>>> But lit seems to still be stuck in a Python 2.5 world. For example,
>>> detectCPUs is redundant now that we have multiprocessing.cpu_count()
>>> (multiprocessing requires >=2.6). And there are a bunch of other Python 2.5
>>> workarounds floating around inside lit. I'm actually not sure if there are
>>> 2.6 workarounds.
>>>
>>> Anyway, does anybody know if somehow, despite the CMake check, lit is
>>> still being run with Python <2.7 on any bots or anywhere? If not, I'd like
>>> to make a couple cleanup patches.
>>>
>>> -- Sean Silva
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