Move to python3 host tool compiliation

[Robert Marko]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2025 at 10:04, Christian Marangi (Ansuel)
<ansuelsmth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is mostly feedback request on a change I would like to merge.
> This is the PR in question [1].
>
> It transition from using host python3 to compile one from source.
>
> The reason is simple. We had multiple times where things ""explode""
> as the symbolic link for python gets corrupted after a python version
> update.
>
> This got even more relevant recently as they started to spam new
> versions of python almost weekly.
>
> To solve this problem once and for all (also also have a more
> predictable host tools) we compile python from source and
> use our version directly without depending on the one present
> on the host.
>
> The compilation increase is minimal and also we still provide an
> option to use the previous implementation of using the host python.
>
> Is anyone against this change or do you find any problem?
>
> Feel free to give any opinion here, the main object of this is to stop
> the periodic complain of "my buildroot installation broke and I
> can't compile anything anymore"

I think this is a good idea, should avoid the constant catch-up.

Regards,
Robert
>
> [1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/10800
>
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