[Buildroot] [PATCHv2] package/kodi: needs .py modules

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2015-09-19 14:40 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:35:13 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > > Do we actually understand why it doesn't work? There is really no
> > > reason for .py files to be necessary.
> > 
> > Well, what do I know about python? ;-)
> > 
> > I never said I understood the issue. Just that having only .pyc modules
> > make Kodi segfault, while having .py makes it work... :-(
> > 
> > All I got was the trace above. There was nothing (of interest) in Kodi's
> > own log file.
> 
> As you can imagine, I'm not too happy with this solution. I believe
> Kodi is doing something incorrect, since if you just run Python with
> the .pyc files, and do "import site", it works just fine.

Yeah, I would not say the patch is the optimal solution.

> There is some logic in Kodi that tries to set the PYTHONHOME
> environment variable. Can you see in the logs if you see the following
> messages (from xbmc/interfaces/python/XBPython.cpp) :
> 
>   CLog::Log(LOGINFO, "initializing python engine.");
>   CLog::Log(LOGDEBUG, "PYTHONHOME -> %s", CSpecialProtocol::TranslatePath("special://frameworks").c_str());
>   CLog::Log(LOGDEBUG, "PYTHONPATH -> %s", CSpecialProtocol::TranslatePath("special://frameworks").c_str());

No, those messages I did not see. Only the message about suggesting to
set PYTHONHOME followed by the segfault.

> Alternatively, can you change Python, in file Modules/getpath.c,
> function calculate_path(), and dump all the environment variables?

Sure, I can have a look at it. No promise, though...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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