[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/scons: explicitly specify host Python 3

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:39:27 -0600
Robert Hancock <hancock at sedsystems.ca> wrote:

> All packages using scons are now using Python 3 to run it, so
> explicitly set scons as using host-python3. This avoids a
> spurious host Python 2 dependency if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 is not
> set (for example, if no Python is packaged for the target).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancock at sedsystems.ca>
> ---
>  package/scons/scons.mk | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/package/scons/scons.mk b/package/scons/scons.mk
> index da2ccceb08..a95fa7fd69 100644
> --- a/package/scons/scons.mk
> +++ b/package/scons/scons.mk
> @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ SCONS_LICENSE = MIT
>  SCONS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt
>  SCONS_SETUP_TYPE = distutils
>  
> +HOST_SCONS_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON = python3

I am just wondering if we should do our usual dance that consists in
relying on python2 if enabled, i.e something like this:

HOST_SCONS_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON = $(if ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON),python,python3)

or if we simply stop doing this and say that we switch to just python3.

Titouan, what do you think ?

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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