@@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ optionally be defined, depending on the package's needs. Many of them
are only useful in very specific cases, typical packages will
therefore only use a few of them, or none.
+* +PYTHON_FOO_SUBDIR+ may contain the name of a subdirectory inside the
+ package that contains the main +setup.py+ file. This is useful,
+ if for example, the main +setup.py+ file is not at the root of
+ the tree extracted by the tarball. If +HOST_PYTHON_FOO_SUBDIR+ is not
+ specified, it defaults to +PYTHON_FOO_SUBDIR+.
+
* +PYTHON_FOO_ENV+, to specify additional environment variables to
pass to the Python +setup.py+ script (for both the build and install
steps). Note that the infrastructure is automatically passing
@@ -101,9 +101,6 @@ HOST_PKG_PYTHON_SETUPTOOLS_INSTALL_OPTS = \
define inner-python-package
-$(2)_SRCDIR = $$($(2)_DIR)/$$($(2)_SUBDIR)
-$(2)_BUILDDIR = $$($(2)_SRCDIR)
-
$(2)_ENV ?=
$(2)_BUILD_OPTS ?=
$(2)_INSTALL_OPTS ?=
No functional change is brought by this modification. This patch: * removes redundant <pkg>_SRCDIR and <pkg>_BUILDDIR declarations (already defined in pkg-generic.mk) * documents the usage of <pkg>_SUBDIR in the python-specific section of the manual. Signed-off-by: Lionel Orry <lionel.orry@gmail.com> --- docs/manual/adding-packages-python.txt | 6 ++++++ package/pkg-python.mk | 3 --- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)