Broken powerpc compilation since commit 141659187667 ("pylibfdt: Fix disable version normalization")

[Pali Rohár]

On Saturday 07 January 2023 16:24:00 Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 10:23:06PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> 
> > Hello! Now I was going to test urgent release workaround/fix for this
> > issue https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2023-January/503900.html
> > but I figured out that I cannot compile u-boot from master branch for
> > powerpc platform. make throws following error:
> > 
> >       LDS     u-boot.lds
> >       HOSTLD  scripts/dtc/dtc
> >     Traceback (most recent call last):
> >       File "scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/setup.py", line 23, in <module>
> >         from setuptools import setup, Extension, sic
> >     ImportError: cannot import name 'sic' from 'setuptools' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py)
> >     make[2]: *** [scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/Makefile:33: rebuild] Error 1
> >     make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:398: scripts/dtc/pylibfdt] Error 2
> >     make: *** [Makefile:2031: scripts_dtc] Error 2
> > 
> > git bisect showed me that problematic commit is one from yesterday:
> > 
> > 141659187667 ("pylibfdt: Fix disable version normalization")
> > 
> > Reverting it on top of master branch compiled u-boot for powerpc without
> > issues.
> > 
> > It looks like a bit complicated issue as that commit is fixing another
> > commit from two weeks before:
> > 
> > 440098c42e73 ("pylibfdt: Fix version normalization warning")
> > 
> > Tom, do you have an idea how to handle this?
> 
> What host distro are you on?

On this build machine I have currently Debian 10.