Bob: So, this is OS issue. I prefer to update wiki page to describe how to resolve it.
Thanks Liming >-----Original Message----- >From: Feng, Bob C >Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 10:51 AM >To: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>; Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com>; >Bi, Dandan <dandan...@intel.com>; Carsey, Jaben <jaben.car...@intel.com> >Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org >Subject: RE: [edk2] [Patch 0/3] BaseTools: Implement splitquoted function > >Hi Laszlo, Liming, Jaben and Dandan, > >I found this is a Ubuntu18 bug. Refer to >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fdroidserver/+bug/1762183 > >And Ubuntu fixed this bug via a Ubuntu18.04.1 update package which was >published on 2018-08-09. Refer to >https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fdroidserver/1.0.9-1~18.04.1 > >While the latest Ubuntu 18.04 release (ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso) >on http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ was published on 2018-07-25. So there >is no distutils.util library on Ubuntu18.04 default installation. But I think >it's >clear that distutils.util is not *3rd party* python library. > >I have tried that the command "sudo apt upgrade" can't fix this bug while the >command "sudo apt-get install python3-distutils" works. > >Thanks, >Bob > >-----Original Message----- >From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com] >Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:02 PM >To: Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com>; Feng, Bob C ><bob.c.f...@intel.com>; Bi, Dandan <dandan...@intel.com> >Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org >Subject: Re: [edk2] [Patch 0/3] BaseTools: Implement splitquoted function > >On 02/12/19 14:33, Gao, Liming wrote: >> Laszlo: >> To install python3-distutils should resolve this issue. I expect BaseTools >build functionality doesn't depend on the third party python lib. > >I completely agree with your expectation, regarding *3rd party* python >packages. We shouldn't expect developers to install packages from >repositories that fall outside of their normal distro repos. > >However, my understanding was that python3-distutils should be available as >a normal (not 3rd party) component on Ubuntu 18. I think we can expect >developers to install additional packages if those packages are readily >available >in their normal (distro-provided) repos. > >> So, I suggest to check whether python3-distutils is the native python >> library. >If it is native python library, why Ubuntu18 doesn't include it. I will work >with >Dandan to collect more information. > >Right, that's exactly what I'm asking for. Thank you very much! >Laszlo > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:ler...@redhat.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 8:24 PM >>> To: Feng, Bob C <bob.c.f...@intel.com>; Bi, Dandan >>> <dandan...@intel.com> >>> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com> >>> Subject: Re: [edk2] [Patch 0/3] BaseTools: Implement splitquoted >>> function >>> >>> On 02/04/19 20:12, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>>> On 02/03/19 06:55, Feng, Bob C wrote: >>>>> BZ: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509 >>>>> On some Linux environment, there may be no distutils.util library >>>>> for python3 that will cause build tool crash. >>>>> This patch implement distutils.util.split_quoted in BaseTools so >>>>> that the Basetools will be independent with distutils.util library. >>>>> >>>>> Feng, Bob C (3): >>>>> BaseTools: Implement splitquoted function in Build tool >>>>> BaseTools: Implement splitquoted function in UPT >>>>> BaseTools: unit test for splitquoted function >>>>> >>>>> BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/UniClassObject.py | 50 >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- >>>>> BaseTools/Source/Python/UPT/Library/UniClassObject.py | 47 >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- >>>>> BaseTools/Tests/TestStringSplit.py | 38 >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>> 3 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode >>>>> 100644 BaseTools/Tests/TestStringSplit.py >>>>> >>>> >>>> Is this really necessary? BZ#1509 references Ubuntu18; however it >>>> looks like the issue can be resolved by a simple package >>>> installation on Ubuntu 18: >>>> >>>> https://superuser.com/questions/1319047/cant-install-virtual-interpr >>>> eter-in-pycharm-in-linux >>>> >>>> """ >>>> sudo apt-get install python3-distutils """ >>>> >>>> I'm not a Ubuntu user myself; so all I can do here (without >>>> installing a >>>> Ubuntu18 VM) is check the Ubuntu package directory: >>>> >>>> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python3- >distutils&search >>>> on=names&suite=all§ion=all >>>> >>>> python3-distutils appears available for both "bionic (18.04LTS)" and >>>> "cosmic (18.10)". >>>> >>>> Dandan, if you install python3-distutils, does that solve the issue for >>>> you? >>> >>> I'd still like to get an answer to my question, before the series is pushed. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Laszlo _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
