[PATCH v3 1/2] binman: Do not pollute source tree when build with `make O=...`

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 7:08 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 17:33, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Importing libraries in Python caches the bytecode by default.
> > Since we run scripts in source tree it ignores the current directory
> > settings, which is $(srctree), and creates cache just in the middle
> > of the source tree. Move cache to the current directory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > v3: avoided crash (Simon), preserved tree hierarchy
> >  tools/binman/main.py | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Applied to u-boot-dm/next, thanks!
>
> I didn't notice this before, but this seems to create files like this:
>
> ./tools/binman/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/elftools/common/construct_utils.cpython-39.pyc
>
> We don't really want to 'recache' the common Python files. Do you
> think we should revert this patch, or find another fix?

I'm not sure I understand. efitools is not common, it's a separate
(non-standard) module and it's cached.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko