pip_install_wheel: generate the wheels in directory we control outside of S

Set the wheel distribution location, PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH, to a
directory under WORKDIR to enhance out-of-tree builds.

(From OE-Core rev: 8e7ae4246aa8dedd8a128c34450d4c1f60e2224a)

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

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass b/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass
index febcc8e445..954a6b750f 100644
--- a/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/pip_install_wheel.bbclass
@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@ def guess_pip_install_package_name(d):
     return name.replace('-', '_')
 
 PIP_INSTALL_PACKAGE ?= "${@guess_pip_install_package_name(d)}"
-PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH ?= "${@d.getVar('SETUPTOOLS_SETUP_PATH') or d.getVar('B')}/dist"
+
+# The directory where wheels should be written too. Build classes
+# will ideally [cleandirs] this but we don't do that here in case
+# a recipe wants to install prebuilt wheels.
+PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH ?= "${WORKDIR}/dist"
+
 PYPA_WHEEL ??= "${PIP_INSTALL_DIST_PATH}/${PIP_INSTALL_PACKAGE}-*-*.whl"
 
 PIP_INSTALL_ARGS = "\