[PATCH] prereq-build: require python3-distutils

[Hauke Mehrtens]

Hi Andre,

I will backport this to 21.02 in the next days. I want to wait if there 
are more problems showing up in master.

Hauke

On 8/23/21 10:47 PM, Andre Heider wrote:
> Hi Hauke,
> 
> thanks for merging the patch!
> 
> Can we also get this cherry-picked to the 21.02 branch, please?
> 
> Jeffery makes some good points as to why here:
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/16304#issuecomment-904097018
> 
> I too can see that package backports could get unnecessarily painful in 
> the future without this in 21.02.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andre
> 
> On 10/08/2021 12:22, Andre Heider wrote:
>> Debian and Ubuntu ship a python3-minimal package which does not include
>> the distutils module. This is not supported by upstream and can be
>> considered a broken python distribution.
>>
>> In practice, many scripts depend on said module, and this is a reoccuring
>> pain point for building various OpenWrt packages.
>>
>> Require and check for said module, enough time has been wasted on this.
>>
>> A list of just the most recent issues:
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/16304
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/16027
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/15443
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/14394
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/12909
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/12443
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/11035
>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/10993
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   include/prereq-build.mk | 4 ++++
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/prereq-build.mk b/include/prereq-build.mk
>> index 8fbf6f22c4..922e7c544b 100644
>> --- a/include/prereq-build.mk
>> +++ b/include/prereq-build.mk
>> @@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ $(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,python3,Please 
>> install Python >= 3.6, \
>>       python3.6 -V 2>&1 | grep 'Python 3', \
>>       python3 -V 2>&1 | grep -E 'Python 3\.[6-9]\.?'))
>> +$(eval $(call TestHostCommand,python3-distutils, \
>> +    Please install the Python3 distutils module, \
>> +    $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/python3 -c 'import distutils'))
>> +
>>   $(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,git,Please install Git (git-core) >= 
>> 1.7.12.2, \
>>       git --exec-path | xargs -I % -- grep -q -- --recursive 
>> %/git-submodule))
>>
> 

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