Help request for potentially new host dependencies

[Chris Johns]

On 7/10/19 5:32 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> I need your help to figure out if some host tools which I would like to use for
> the RTEMS BSP build and development are widely supported on the host platforms
> of all RTEMS users.
> 
> The current build system is based on Autoconf and Automake. I would like to
> replace it with a Python based build system (waf) which is aimed to be faster
> and easier to maintain. It would simplify things if the build tool could read
> configuration files in YAML format. The files in this format are produced and
> maintained by Doorstop. This is a Python 3 based tool to manage requirements and
> specification items (e.g. the build specification).

MacOS does not have python3 or pip by default. This is a base machine with only
Xcode installed. This is the base level all current testing of RTEMS tools,
RTEMS and LibBSD is being done.

Chris