Commit 238bf198 authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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python: add patch to fix logic to get gcc paths 



The Python setup.py has a function called add_gcc_paths(), which
executes gcc -E -v to get the list of header paths searched by
gcc. However, the logic of setup.py is only valid with the normal
english output of gcc: it doesn't work if a non-english locale is
set. This causes setup.py to not find certain headers (such as zlib.h)
and therefore disabling the build of such extensions.

Reported-by: default avatarBruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin@gcompris.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
parent 62d925ee

package/python/018-fix-add-gcc-paths-logic.patch

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Override system locale and set to default when adding gcc paths



Forces the use of the default locale in the function

add_gcc_paths, which is called when cross compiling to add the

include and library paths. This is necessary because otherwise

the gcc output is localized and the output parsing fails, which

results in no paths added and detect_modules not able to find

any system library (eg. libz, libssl, etc.)



[Thomas: patch taken from https://bugs.python.org/issue23767.]



Signed-off-by: Samuel Cabrero <samuelcabrero@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>



Index: b/setup.py

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--- a/setup.py

+++ b/setup.py

@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@

         tmpfile = os.path.join(self.build_temp, 'gccpaths')

         if not os.path.exists(self.build_temp):

             os.makedirs(self.build_temp)

-        ret = os.system('%s -E -v - </dev/null 2>%s 1>/dev/null' % (gcc, tmpfile))

+        ret = os.system('LC_ALL=C %s -E -v - </dev/null 2>%s 1>/dev/null' % (gcc, tmpfile))

         is_gcc = False

         in_incdirs = False

         inc_dirs = []