Arnout Vandecappelle b45400dad4 package/python3: do build-time detection of non-working toolchain
Since the bump to Python 3.13.2 in commit
d63e207eb8, there is a runtime assertion
in Python when the toolchain doesn't support time64 [1]. The only such
toolchain is one with uClibc and linux headers < 5.1.

Encoding this dependency in Config.in was deemed to complicated (cfr.
commit ffd0028031).

Instead, do a build-time check of the same condition. The check itself
is a bit complicated, but it is localized to python3.mk and doesn't need
to be propagated to all reverse dependencies.

Testing such a corner case toolchain is a bit complicated. It can be
done with the following configuration.

BR2_arm=y
BR2_cortex_a9=y
BR2_ARM_ENABLE_VFP=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CUSTOM=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_DOWNLOAD=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_URL="http://toolchains.bootlin.com/downloads/releases/toolchains/armv7-eabihf/tarballs/armv7-eabihf--uclibc--stable-2018.02-1.tar.bz2"
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GCC_6=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_HEADERS_4_1=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LOCALE=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CXX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3=y

It needs to be built in an environment that has libmpfr.so.4 installed
as the pre-built toolchain from that era did not include it. An easy
way to achieve this is to build this configuration under an old
Buildroot Docker container:

IMAGE=buildroot/base:20180205.0730 ./utils/docker-run make python3

With a build-time check, the autobuilders could get build failures when
generating such a config. However, the autobuilders cannot use a
toolchain with this configuration (they only use more recent
toolchains). Therefore, no update to genrandconfig is needed.

[1] https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues/95#note_2348479811

Cc: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
Cc: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@rnout.be>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
2025-09-07 17:47:23 +02:00
2025-01-15 21:30:31 +01:00
2025-08-28 08:01:55 +02:00
2025-08-28 08:01:55 +02:00

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