recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py: less distutils

'distutils' is deprecated in Python 3.10 with removal in Python 3.12
(~October 2023). Replace 'distutils.command.build_py' with
'setuptools.command.build_py'.

To avoid an AttributeError, we call super().__init__() which provides
the missing 'distribution' attribute. However, for some reason, __init__()
in 'setuptools.command.build_py.build_py' class requires a 'dist' positional
argument which must be a 'Distribution' instance. It is not clear why
'distutils.command.build_py.build_py' class does not require this.

There is still a check which decides to inherit setuptools3 vs distutils3
that will need to be refactored when we add pyproject.toml and setup.cfg
support for more modern PEP 517 packaging.

Once distutils3.bbclass is dropped, any recipe inheriting distutils3
will throw a parsing error. The plan is to move distutils*.bbclasses to
meta-python. However if meta-python is not in bblayers, the parsing
error would still occur.

[YOCTO #14610]

(From OE-Core rev: 619a3eb1266459daf16e10386113e9201fbf9cf5)

Signed-off-by: Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
index 0b6b042ed1..1a15011687 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import ast
 import codecs
 import collections
-import distutils.command.build_py
+import setuptools.command.build_py
 import email
 import imp
 import glob
@@ -459,9 +459,13 @@ class PythonRecipeHandler(RecipeHandler):
         else:
             package_dir = {}
 
-        class PackageDir(distutils.command.build_py.build_py):
+        dist = setuptools.Distribution()
+
+        class PackageDir(setuptools.command.build_py.build_py):
             def __init__(self, package_dir):
                 self.package_dir = package_dir
+                self.dist = dist
+                super().__init__(self.dist)
 
         pd = PackageDir(package_dir)
         to_scan = []