[PATCH v2] python3: Drop generating a static libpython

[PATCH v2] python3: Drop generating a static libpython

[Richard Purdie]

This currently puts a 60MB binary into the recipe sysroots in the native
case as well as the implications for the target. Since as far as I know,
we don't need/use this, stop generating it by adding a PACKAGECONFIG. It
can be enabled by anyone who does actually need to use it.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.4.bb | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.4.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.4.bb
index 77bbfaa069e..743ba0b1f1f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.4.bb
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[tk] = ",,tk"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tcl] = ",,tcl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = ",,gdbm"
 PACKAGECONFIG[lto] = "--with-lto,--without-lto"
+PACKAGECONFIG[staticlibpython] = "--with-static-libpython,--without-static-libpython"
 
 do_configure:prepend () {
     mkdir -p ${B}/Modules

Re: [PATCH v2] python3: Drop generating a static libpython

[Guðni Már Gilbert]

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Hi, I tried adding this in my Scarthgap project and this change reduced disk memory usage by  ~177MB, very nice find :)

Any chance to have this backported?

Best regards,
Gudni

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Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] python3: Drop generating a static libpython

[Alexander Kanavin]

You are welcome to send such a backport, but it has to preserve
existing behaviour by default.

Alex

On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 at 11:17, Guðni Már Gilbert via
lists.openembedded.org <gudni.m.g=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org>
wrote:
>
> Hi, I tried adding this in my Scarthgap project and this change reduced disk memory usage by  ~177MB, very nice find :)
>
> Any chance to have this backported?
>
> Best regards,
> Gudni
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Re: [PATCH v2] python3: Drop generating a static libpython

[Guðni Már Gilbert]

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 09:21 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:

> 
> You are welcome to send such a backport, but it has to preserve
> existing behaviour by default.
> 
> Alex

I see, then to backport this specific change we would need to add 'staticlibpython' to PACKAGECONFIG.

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Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] python3: Drop generating a static libpython

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 11:20 +0200, Alexander Kanavin via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> You are welcome to send such a backport, but it has to preserve
> existing behaviour by default.

Given I found no users of it, I suspect if we wait a week or two and
hear no complaints, this one might be ok but it would need a little
more careful review/testing/TSC acks.

Cheers,

Richard