User @sharkcz noted that when the '--quiet' flag is removed from
./setup.py, the following can be seen from the `./setup.py install`
stage.
Running custom install script 'dtc/g/pylibfdt/../setup.py --top-builddir \
dtc/g/redhat-linux-build install --prefix=/usr/local --root=$DESTDIR'
running install
...
building '_libfdt' extension
swigging dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt.i to \
dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c
swig -python -Idtc/g/pylibfdt/../libfdt -o \
dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt.i
gcc -fno-strict-overflow -Wsign-compare -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 \
-DNDEBUG -fexceptions -fexceptions -fexceptions -fPIC -DPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN \
-Idtc/g/pylibfdt/../libfdt -I/usr/include/python3.12 -c \
dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c -o \
build/temp.linux-ppc64le-cpython-312dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.o
creating build/lib.linux-ppc64le-cpython-312
gcc -shared build/temp.linux-ppc64le-cpython-312dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.o \
-Ldtc/g/redhat-linux-build/libfdt -L/usr/lib64 -lfdt -o \
build/lib.linux-ppc64le-cpython-312/_libfdt.cpython-312-powerpc64le-linux-gnu.so
copying dtc/g/pylibfdt/../pylibfdt/libfdt.py -> build/lib.linux-ppc64le-cpython-312
Meaning the python library is getting recompiled during the `meson
install` phase. This causes build issues as Meson does not set the
compiler and linker flags during the install phase.
The reason the library is getting rebuilt is during the normal build
with "build_ext", the `--build-lib` flag gets passed which changes the
default output build directory. But there is no equivalent option for
the "install" command. Install instead looks in the default directory
"./build" and so does not find the previously built library.
Since we can't fix the "install" command, drop the --build-lib flag.
This causes setup.py to compile the libraries at
`<meson-build>/build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312/`. We must also then
fix run_tests.sh to find the library build directory as it's
machine-dependent.
Fixes: #135
Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Brandon Maier