RE: [OE-core] Building python3 without readline fails for Kirkstone

[Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: den 14 mars 2022 14:45
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>; OE Core
> (openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org) <openembedded-
> core@lists.openembedded.org>
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Building python3 without readline fails for
> Kirkstone
> 
> On Mon, 2022-03-14 at 13:39 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > We have readline support disabled for python3 for target. It works
> > fine for Hardknott and Honister, but fails for Kirkstone with the
> > following error:
> >
> >   The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
> >   _curses               _curses_panel
> >
> > The problem can be recreated by adding the following to local.conf:
> >
> > PACKAGECONFIG:remove:pn-python3:class-target = "readline"
> >
> > and then building python3.
> >
> > Any help to solve the problem would be appreciated.
> 
> I'd have thought that those modules being missing was probably expected if
> you disable readline?

AFAICT, both curses and curses_panel are built for Hardknott and 
Honister even if readline is removed from PACKAGECONFIG.

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

//Peter