package/qemu: remove broken/unneeded PYTHONPATH
authorTrent Piepho <tpiepho@impinj.com>
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:53:07 +0000 (21:53 +0000)
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:44:59 +0000 (11:44 +0100)
commit9000889da79b554e50c87fd5aad3aed11cf60bb2
treefaba2371d96f5d46672d8d0f403cdd479c98dfa4
parent1c7d476727c279bb6b3a11d8fb62ddcf5f6ceeb7
package/qemu: remove broken/unneeded PYTHONPATH

Qemu uses the host-python when building, but the .mk file is pointing the
host-python interpreter to the target python site-packages, which is both
incorrect and also unneeded.

Qemu doesn't need any extra packages [1], so there's no need to provide
this path.  And indeed qemu builds fine when setting the path to a
non-existent directory.

Since target qemu neither depends on nor selects target python, it's
quite possible to build qemu without a target python, in which case the
supplied PYTHONPATH is a non-existent directory.

But even if qemu did want a python package, pointing the host-python to
the target site-packages will not work.  The package could contain a
compiled shared library for the target architecture that the host python
can not load.  This can be tested by adding "import numpy" to one of
qemu's python scripts and observing target python-numpy failing to load
when the script is run at build time.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01758.html
  "Avoid third-party package dependencies - QEMU currently has none!"

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@impinj.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
package/qemu/qemu.mk