On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 7:31 AM Zoltan Boszormenyi via
lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote:

> This patchset allows turning on Python freethreading by using
> a new DISTRO_FEATURES setting:
>
> DISTRO_FEATURES += "python_freethreading"
>
> and optionally:
>
> DISTRO_FEATURES_NATIVE += "python_freethreading"
>
> The change to python3-dir.bbclass is crucial, as all python module
> build helper classes rely on it.
>
> I also added native variants of some settings because another
> series against meta-openembedded is needed to complete this one.
> In that, the change to the fontforge recipe relies on the native
> setting for setting BUILD_LDFLAGS.
>

Looking at those other patches in the series, they don't seem to
be conditional on the distro feature.

Are those changes valid for a build with and without freethreading ?

That's the type of information, along with the benefits of enabling
this would be information expected in a 0/N introductory patch.

Cheers,

Bruce



>
> All of the changes included here were successfully build tested,
> except for the gdb-cross-canadian change. That one failed, but
> it's included for completeness.
>
> Quite a few of python modules were build tested for native and
> target builds, including python3-pytorch from my meta-python-ai
> with reduced RDEPENDS because e.g. python3-onnx there failed
> to build with freethreading enabled.
>
> All in all, this series at least allows to get things going.
> Though maybe not for Yocto 6.0, as it's quite late.
>
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi
>
> 
>
>

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