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

[Pali Rohár]

On Saturday 07 January 2023 16:28:05 Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 10:25:43PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> OK, and does undoing the mentioned commit and trying:
> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/pull/266/commits/eb76bf5864b53938db639867ad5d75893b5a571e
> instead work there?

I checkout master branch, then I reverted commit 141659187667 and then
I applied a495b8f497dc from github. But it does not work, it throws error:

      LDS     u-boot.lds
      HOSTCC  scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.o
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/setup.py", line 25, in <module>
        from packaging import version
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'packaging'
    make[2]: *** [scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/Makefile:33: rebuild] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:398: scripts/dtc/pylibfdt] Error 2
    make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    make: *** [Makefile:2031: scripts_dtc] Error 2