[OE-core] [PATCH v2] u-boot: Fix missing Python.h build failure

[Alistair Francis]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:29 AM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 14:16 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > Can we take this opportunity to teach u-boot to use Python 3.x
> > instead? oe-core is trying to eliminate Python 2.x dependencies
> > everywhere.
>
> It looks like the libfdt code in u-boot currently requires Python 2, so
> it would be an unstream change to convert it to Python 3. It also
> appears to be compiling a C module to work with Python 2 so its
> probably not as simple as "convert the script".

Agreed, the u-boot Maintainers added a patch to specifically use
Python2 recently so I think we are stuck with Python2 here until
upstream u-boot is updated.

Alistair

>
>
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 13:38, Alistair Francis <
> > alistair at alistair23.me> wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair at alistair23.me>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc b/meta/recipes-
> > > bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
> > > index 96c1f94011..9a754fd09b 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
> > > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ DEPENDS += "swig-native python-native"
> > >
> > >  EXTRA_OEMAKE = 'CROSS_COMPILE=${TARGET_PREFIX}
> > > CC="${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc ${TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS}" V=1'
> > >  EXTRA_OEMAKE += 'HOSTCC="${BUILD_CC} ${BUILD_CFLAGS}
> > > ${BUILD_LDFLAGS}"'
> > > -EXTRA_OEMAKE += 'PYTHON=nativepython
> > > STAGING_INCDIR=${STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE}
> > > STAGING_LIBDIR=${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}'
> > > +EXTRA_OEMAKE += 'PYTHON2=nativepython
> > > STAGING_INCDIR=${STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE}
> > > STAGING_LIBDIR=${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}'
> > >
> > >  PACKAGECONFIG ??= "openssl"
> > >  # u-boot will compile its own tools during the build, with
> > > specific
> > > --
> > > 2.20.1
> > >
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