Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] python3: Add a new PACKAGECONFIG knob for free threading

["Böszörményi Zoltán" <zboszor@gmail.com>]

2026. 03. 24. 9:46 keltezéssel, Bartosz Golaszewski írta:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 6:23 PM Böszörményi Zoltán <zboszor@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2026. 03. 23. 16:03 keltezéssel, Trevor Gamblin írta:
>>> On 2026-03-23 10:52, Zoltan Boszormenyi via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>>>> 2026. 03. 23. 15:47 keltezéssel, Alexander Kanavin írta:
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 at 15:40, Böszörményi Zoltán <zboszor@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I also see other issues popping up, first in python3-installer-native.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Probably this setting ("python-freethreading") should be a
>>>>>> DISTRO_FEATURE and then the python3 recipe would use that
>>>>>> to enable its PACKAGECONFIG.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PYTHON_DIR in python-dir.bbclass should also be set accordingly.
>>>>> In patch review it was suggested that we should actually have two
>>>>> co-installable recipes, rather than an exclusive choice between.
>>>> Which implies doubling every python3-* recipes, too.
>>> I think that should only be for python3 packages which actually have binary builds.
>> Not just those. Script-only modules won't be found either
>> by one build in the the other build's site-packages.
>>
> Am I getting this right: This is experimental, never worked and
> actually shouldn't even be in openembedded-core master at all? I'm
> trying to figure out if I'm wasting my time trying to make this work.

I have figured out what was needed, it wasn't that bad.
I just sent two series for that, one for openembedded-core and
one for meta-openembedded.

Some projects do not actually expect freethreading to be enabled,
see the ones with moving the installed site-packages directory into
the correct location:

+do_install:append () {
+    if [ ! -d ${D}${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR} ]; then
+        mv ${D}${libdir}/python${PYTHON_BASEVERSION} ${D}${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}
+    fi
+}

I expect a lot of fallouts in CI.