setuptools_build_meta: clean up configure/compile

Make do_configure do nothing by default as the base configure isn't
useful, and invoke the build API directly instead of writing a script.

In the future, this can simply call python3-build.

(From OE-Core rev: ccad9d0218ef69bdb8c708029445fcd661f1c490)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass b/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
index 8f5479e922..0651cca0a0 100644
--- a/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/setuptools_build_meta.bbclass
@@ -3,16 +3,13 @@ inherit pip_install_wheel setuptools3-base
 DEPENDS += "python3-setuptools-native python3-wheel-native"
 
 setuptools_build_meta_do_configure () {
-    mkdir -p ${S}/dist
-    cat > ${S}/build-it.py << EOF
-from setuptools import build_meta
-wheel = build_meta.build_wheel('./dist')
-print(wheel)
-EOF
+    :
 }
 
+# TODO: ideally this uses pypa/build
 setuptools_build_meta_do_compile () {
-    nativepython3 ${S}/build-it.py
+    mkdir -p ${S}/dist
+    nativepython3 -c "from setuptools import build_meta; build_meta.build_wheel('./dist')"
 }
 
 EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_configure do_compile