Re: [PATCH v2] docs/conf.py: Remove usage of distutils

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 04/03/2024 17.56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 13:04, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The macOS jobs in our CI recently started failing, complaining that
>> the distutils module is not available anymore. And indeed, according to
>> https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ it's been deprecated since a while
>> and now likely got removed in recent Python versions.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be sufficient to fix the macos CI:
> something in glib seems to still be using it.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/6313212803
> 
> [281/6553] Generating ui/dbus-display gdbus-codegen with a custom command
> FAILED: ui/dbus-display1.h ui/dbus-display1.c
> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/bin/gdbus-codegen
> ui/dbus-display1.xml --glib-min-required 2.64 --output-directory
> /private/var/folders/xc/tpssff9959345bnqq4c6tlww0000gn/T/cirrus-ci-build/build/ui
> --interface-prefix org.qemu. --c-namespace QemuDBus --generate-c-code
> dbus-display1
...
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

Looking at the glib sources, I think this has been fixed here:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/6ef967a0f930ce37a8c9b5aff96969

The fix will be in glib 2.79, unfortunately homebrew still seems to use glib 
2.78 ...

We could maybe temporarily work-around the problem by disabling the dbus 
code in the CI job? Or just wait for homebrew to update the package?

  Thomas