Re: [Patch 0/3] BaseTools: Implement splitquoted function

["Feng, Bob C" <bob.c.feng@intel.com>]

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:lersek@redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:02 PM
To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; Feng, Bob C <bob.c.feng@intel.com>; Bi, Dandan <dandan.bi@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:lersek@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 8:24 PM
>> To: Feng, Bob C <bob.c.feng@intel.com>; Bi, Dandan 
>> <dandan.bi@intel.com>
>> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Gao, Liming <liming.gao@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&section=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