[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] python3: Expose PYTHON_BINABI in global config metadata

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:49 AM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 11:10 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > packages can use
> >
> > find_package(PythonInterp REQUIRED)
> > find_package(PythonLibs REQUIRED)
> >
> > while we control PYTHON pointing to native py3 the libs and include
> > directories will then point to build host version, which can result
> > in
> > unexpected combination and if we are lucky we get errors if its quite
> > different e.g. py2 libs/includes and py3 executable
> >
> > This variable can be then used to export PYTHON_LIBRARY and
> > PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR so that above find_packages can work correctly
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc   | 3 +++
> >  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.7.4.bb | 1 -
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Putting this into the global namespace seems like a really bad idea.
> Can we not use a class like Alex mentions? I thought we already had
> one?
>

yeah I think we have what is needed to form the needed vars via PYTHON_DIR
I have sent a v2, this patch can be ignored

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>