[Buildroot] Compiling Python packages with C extensions with per-package directories

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Asaf,

On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:57:47 +0200
Asaf Kahlon <asafka7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it looks like some of your additional patches will solve those issues.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, do we have any roadmap for merging those patches or any
> "known issues" regarding this feature that have to be resolved?

My plan was to send those additional patches once the core per-package
support would be merged, which happened just a few days ago.

I hope to be able to send those additional patches next week. Note that
they don't fix all problems. For example, it is known that Qt5 is also
broken with per-package support. Andreas had sent a patch series fixing
this, but it was not trivial.

Next week, I will also try to update
https://elinux.org/Buildroot:Top_Level_Parallel_Build to keep track of
the status: what is merged, what is fixed but not merged yet, and what
are the remaining known issues.

I will also send a patch to enable per-package support usage in the
autobuilders. Not for all builds, but for a small fraction of the
builds.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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