Re: [PATCH v2] docs/conf.py: Remove usage of distutils

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 9/3/24 18:27, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 10:39, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 04/03/2024 19.04, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 06:11:58PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > > On 04/03/2024 17.56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 13:04, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > The macOS jobs in our CI recently started failing, complaining that
> > > > > > the distutils module is not available anymore. And indeed, according to
> > > > > > https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ it's been deprecated since a while
> > > > > > and now likely got removed in recent Python versions.
> > > > >
> > > > > This doesn't seem to be sufficient to fix the macos CI:
> > > > > something in glib seems to still be using it.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/6313212803
> > > > >
> > > > > [281/6553] Generating ui/dbus-display gdbus-codegen with a custom command
> > > > > FAILED: ui/dbus-display1.h ui/dbus-display1.c
> > > > > /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.78.4/bin/gdbus-codegen
> > > > > ui/dbus-display1.xml --glib-min-required 2.64 --output-directory
> > > > > /private/var/folders/xc/tpssff9959345bnqq4c6tlww0000gn/T/cirrus-ci-build/build/ui
> > > > > --interface-prefix org.qemu. --c-namespace QemuDBus --generate-c-code
> > > > > dbus-display1
> > > > ...
> > > > > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the glib sources, I think this has been fixed here:
> > > >
> > > >    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/6ef967a0f930ce37a8c9b5aff96969
> > > >
> > > > The fix will be in glib 2.79, unfortunately homebrew still seems to use glib
> > > > 2.78 ...
> > > >
> > > > We could maybe temporarily work-around the problem by disabling the dbus
> > > > code in the CI job? Or just wait for homebrew to update the package?
> > >
> > > File a bug against homebrew. IME they are very quick (1-3 days) at
> > > putting out fixes for things like this, especially if you point them
> > > to the upstream solution.
> >
> > Ok, while I was writing my mail, I was looking at https://brew.sh/ and
> > didn't see a link to a bug tracker there ... but now I realized that they
> > are simply using the github tracker, so I went ahead and filed a bug there:
> >
> >    https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/16823
> >
> > Let's see how it goes...
>
> Seems to be going slowly. I notice that there's a comment in there
> saying that "brew install python-setuptools" is a workaround to
> get glib 2.78 working -- that seems like it would be good to get
> our CI back to green. Is there a way to test changes to the cirrus
> config short of committing it and seeing if it helps? I don't see
> the jobs available on a pipeline in my personal gitlab repo...

Yes, but you need to grant cirrus-ci some permissions you weren't
ready to give last time.

I just tested it and it is still failing for me:
https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu/-/jobs/6357526794