At present we require that setup.py is executed from the Makefile, which
sets up various important things like the list of files to build and the
version number.
However many installation systems expect to be able to change to the
directory containing setup.py and run it. This allows them to support (for
example) building/installing for multiple Python versions, varying
installation paths, particular C flags, etc.
The problem in implementing this is that we don't want to duplicate the
information in the Makefile. A common solution (so I am told) is to parse
the Makefile to obtain the required information.
Update the setup.py script to read a few Makefiles when it does not see
the required information in its environment. This allows installation
using:
./pylibfdt/setup.py install
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Adjust the setup script to support installation, and call it from the
Makefile if enabled. It will be disabled if we were unable to build the
module (e.g. due to swig being missing), or the NO_PYTHON environment
variable is set.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Some build systems want to build python libraries separately from the
rest of the build.
Add a NO_PYTHON option to enable this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add a note about pylibfdt in the README.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The supposed home page hasn't existed for some time. We don't really have
anything else, so remove the link from the README.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Add a README file to document the location of the mailing list, the home
page and state who the maintainers are.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Simon Glass