new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Do not install the idle editor
+
+IDLE is the Python IDE built with the tkinter GUI toolkit. Since it's
+highly unlikely to ever be useful in an embedded Linux system
+generated by Buildroot, this patch simply disables the installation of
+idle and the related Python modules. It saves 800 KB-900 KB of
+installed .pyc files.
+
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
+
+Index: b/Makefile.pre.in
+===================================================================
+--- a/Makefile.pre.in
++++ b/Makefile.pre.in
+@@ -934,7 +934,6 @@
+ json \
+ logging csv importlib wsgiref \
+ ctypes ctypes/macholib \
+- idlelib idlelib/Icons \
+ distutils distutils/command \
+ multiprocessing multiprocessing/dummy \
+ unittest \
+@@ -949,7 +948,6 @@
+ email/test email/test/data \
+ json/tests \
+ ctypes/test \
+- idlelib/idle_test \
+ distutils/tests \
+ unittest/test
+
+Index: b/setup.py
+===================================================================
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -2218,7 +2218,7 @@
+ import warnings
+ warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",category=DeprecationWarning)
+
+- scripts = ['Tools/scripts/idle', 'Lib/smtpd.py']
++ scripts = ['Lib/smtpd.py']
+ if not '--disable-pydoc' in sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS"):
+ scripts += [ 'Tools/scripts/pydoc' ]
+ if not '--disable-lib2to3' in sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS"):
@@ -153,7 +153,6 @@ PYTHON_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += PYTHON_TOUCH_GRAMMAR_FILES
# idle & smtpd.py have bad shebangs and are mostly samples
#
define PYTHON_REMOVE_USELESS_FILES
- rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/idle
rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/python$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR)-config
rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/python2-config
rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/python-config
IDLE is the Python IDE built with the tkinter GUI toolkit, for which the main script has always been removed from the target (so it was never usable in Buildroot). However, we were still installing about 800 to 900 KB of .pyc files used only by the idle editor. This commit adds a Python patch that completely gets rid of the compilation/installation of the idle editor. As a consequence, it is no longer needed to manually remove the 'idle' program from the target in python.mk. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> --- package/python/python-114-remove-idle-editor.patch | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++ package/python/python.mk | 1 - 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 package/python/python-114-remove-idle-editor.patch