[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Your build results for 2016-09-05

[Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 21:13:06 +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
>
>> >      sparc64 |             micropython-v1.8.3 | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/2b6fc56b98474e66febb673a14a860bd16746172
>> >
>>
>> I took a look at this. I can't reproduce it locally but I suspect it
>> might be due to the python version on the autobuilder do we have any
>> way of figuring that out? The py/makeqstrdefs.py states that "This
>> script works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4." so I'm guessing
>> anything earlier than 2.6 Is not expected to work.
>>
>> If this is the problem do we have any way of enforcing this dependency?
>
> This failure occurred on my autobuilder instance, which has:
>
> $ python --version
> Python 2.6.6
>
> So apparently, the script is not completely Python 2.6 compliant like
> they pretend it to be.
>
> The line QSTRING_BLACK_LIST = {'NULL', 'number_of', } is defining a
> set. It works in Python 2.7, but not in Python 2.6. I guess replacing
> with:
>
> QSTRING_BLACK_LIST = set(['NULL', 'number_of'])
>
> should work fine (tested with 2.6, 2.7 and 3.5)
>

So before I go down that path. Are we saying python >2.6 is required
for buildroot? Or at least that is the expectation for the
auto-builders.