Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 3/3] package/python3: bump version to 3.12.1

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> writes:

 > Hello Adam,
 > On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:04:56 -0700
 > Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:

 >> Python 3.12.1 has removed distutils support. As such, we remove the distutils
 >> option from pkg-python.mk as well.
 >> 
 >> Tested on Fedora 39, and Debian 11. All 68 package tests pass.
 >> 
 >> Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
 >> ---
 >> v3 -> v4:
 >> - Drop distutils in pkg-python.mk
 >> - 3.12.0 -> 3.12.1

 > I applied, but after doing a number of changes. The most important one
 > is that I had to reintroduce some of our --disable options: for
 > ncurses, sqlite and expat. Indeed, without these, you ended up with the
 > Python code installed, but not the correspond native library (the
 > py_cv_module__<something>=n/a only disables building the native
 > library).

 > I split up the pkg-python.mk change into a separate commit, which is
 > made before the python 3.12 bump. Indeed, it's semantically separate.

 > Finally, I updated the Buildroot manual to no longer mention distutils
 > support. And I did a separate commit to update the Buildroot manual
 > with other _SETUP_TYPE values that we support.

We unfortunately are still having a number of build failures because of
this, E.G. for target == host or packages using the imp module and we
are very late for 2024.02.x, so I have reverted this again.

We can apply it again 2024.05.x after the release and work on the
remaining issues.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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