[PATCH 7/7] fdt: Move to setuptools

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 11:56, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 08:57:11PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > The distutils package is deprecated. The upstream libfdt repo uses
> > setuptools for building the pylibfdt module, so bring in that code,
> > suitably modified for U-Boot. Also bring in the README.
> >
> > The modifications include setting the version correctly, making use of
> > the environment variables provided by the Makefile and various tweaks
> > to the directories.
> >
> > Note that the version omits the minus character at the start of
> > EXTRAVERSION, since this creates a warning. The build is really just used
> > within U-Boot itself, so it doesn't matter too much if the version matches
> > upstream, or exactly matches U-Boot.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> >  scripts/dtc/README            | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/Makefile |   5 +-
> >  scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/setup.py |  60 ++++++++++++++++---
> >  3 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 scripts/dtc/README
>
> This isn't new enough, however:
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/installer.py:27:
> SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setuptools.installer is deprecated.
> Requirements should be satisfied by a PEP 517 installer.
> when trying in Ubuntu 22.04 (the
> trini/u-boot-gitlab-ci-runner:jammy-20220531-13Jul2022 docker specifically).

+Rob Herring

Yes I see that. But it is a start!

Also I was about to send a pull request with this...should I take it out?

Regards,
Simon