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

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Yann,

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:13:03 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Kodi segfaults as soon as it tries to load a python module:
> 
>     Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
>     Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
>     ImportError: No module named site
>     Segmentation fault
> 
> Turns out that keeping .py modules (with or without .pyc) fixes the
> issue.
> 
> Currently, Kodi selects python, but since the format of modules is a
> choice, we can not select it.
> 
> Fix that by inverting the dependency on python from Kodi:
>   - turn it into a depends rather than a select,
>   - add the dependency to ! pyc-only
>   - update the comment accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

Do we actually understand why it doesn't work? There is really no
reason for .py files to be necessary. Does it happen with Python 2 or
Python 3? Apparently, Kodi selects Python 2, so there really shouldn't
be any problem with having just .pyc files (Python 3 can be more
tricky in that respect.

> changes v1 -> v2:
>   - fix spurious 'i' (vim insert)

But it wasn't enough it seems :)

> -comment "kodi needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar, dynamic library"
> +comment "kodi needs python and .py modiules, and a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar, dynamic library"

                                      ^^^^^^^^
Thomas
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