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* python: skip setup.py 'import check' when cross-compilingTom Zanussi2011-11-081-0/+27
build_extension() in setup.py, as part of the build process, does an 'import check' on the built extension. The import check in turn dlopen()'s the shared library associated with the extension, which isn't something that makes sense if that library was cross-compiled for a different architecture. This was noticed with an x86_64 target that was compiled with avx support, because it caused 'illegal instruction' exceptions: | /bin/sh: line 1: 14575 Illegal instruction ... -E ./setup.py -q build For other target architectures, it doesn't necessarily cause illegal instruction exceptions, but still fails. For example, on arm, the failure pathway causes this warning: *** WARNING: renaming "cmath" since importing it failed: .../cmath.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 This patch to setup.py and the associated recipe changes allow the whole 'import check' logic to be skipped when cross-compiling. (From OE-Core rev: 25fae81538a92e15eab3fc169ebce44505f67839) Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>