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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:57:02 +0100
From: "Mike Crowe" <yocto@mac.mcrowe.com>
To: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 11 August 2021 at 18:32:31 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 18:14, Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com> wrote:
> > I agree regarding the lack of explanation. However, even if the problem is
> > real (which it looks like it is based on
> > https://bugs.python.org/issue41710)
> > then it wouldn't be expected to cause test failures unless the system clock
> > was being warped at inconvenient times during the tests.
>
> So can we just patch python to use the right glibc function with the right
> clock type, and send the patch upstream then? Much better than the
> workaround that was merged.

In theory, yes. I've no idea how hard that is though. It probably requires
adding build-time detection of whether the new functions are available to
avoid breaking other/older target operating systems.

Mike.