[PATCH] prereq-build: require python3-distutils

[Sebastian Kemper]

Am Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:12:00PM +0200 schrieb 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

Hello Hauke, all,

Were there any problems showing up? Or is this good to go into 21.02?

Kind regards,
Sebastian

>
> 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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