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

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

2026. 03. 23. 16:03 keltezéssel, Trevor Gamblin írta:
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> 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.

> For example, python3-setuptools should still be fine, but python3-pyyaml would also need 
> threading enabled for the recipe.
>
> Unfortunately that means this gets even more complicated.
>
> We may need to come up with a couple of new variables and/or a class for threaded builds 
> to make the threaded versions work.
>
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