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

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

Laszlo:
 To install python3-distutils should resolve this issue. I expect BaseTools build functionality doesn't depend on the third party python lib. 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. 

Thanks
Liming
> -----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-interpreter-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&searchon=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