[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/pkg-python: use HOST_CONFIGURE_OPTS for distutils

[Ryan Barnett]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 8:06 AM Ryan Barnett
<ryan.barnett at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
>
> When building host python packages, we need to ensure that distutils
> package types utilize HOST_CONFIGURE_OPTS. This ensures that the
> correct linker and compiler environment variables are set to compile
> utilizing the host directory.
>
> It was discovered that when compiling a host-python package, it was
> using linking against the build machines library folder instead of the
> host folder because LDFLAGS was not properly set and was improperly
> detecting whether or not a shared or static library was present in the
> host folder.

Is there any feedback on this approach to compiling a host python
distutils packages?

Or is it preferred to explicitly pass the LDFLAGS variable in the DISTUTILS_ENV?

> Signed-off-by: Ryan Barnett <ryan.barnett at rockwellcollins.com>
> ---
>  package/pkg-python.mk | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/pkg-python.mk b/package/pkg-python.mk
> index be1ce071df..8e4c7e5795 100644
> --- a/package/pkg-python.mk
> +++ b/package/pkg-python.mk
> @@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ PKG_PYTHON_DISTUTILS_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS = \
>  # Host distutils-based packages
>  HOST_PKG_PYTHON_DISTUTILS_ENV = \
>         PATH=$(BR_PATH) \
> -       PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1
> +       PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1 \
> +       $(HOST_CONFIGURE_OPTS)
>
>  HOST_PKG_PYTHON_DISTUTILS_INSTALL_OPTS = \
>         --prefix=$(HOST_DIR)
> --
> 2.18.0
>

Thanks,
-Ryan