Re: [XEN PATCH v2 3/5] tools: don't use distutils in configure nor Makefile

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/09/2023 12:50 pm, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:38:04AM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 11/09/2023 5:51 pm, Javi Merino wrote:
>>> From: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Python distutils is deprecated and is going to be removed in Python
>>> 3.12. The distutils.sysconfig is available as sysconfig module in
>>> stdlib since Python 3.2, so use that directly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> This breaks Py2, doesn't it?
> I was thinking that too, but "sysconfig" module seems to be in Python
> 2.7 too.

Oh, so it is.  Lovely that the documentation says this...

It seems to have appeared in Py2.7 and 3.2 together. 
https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/sysconfig.html

I notice that README currently says Py2.6.  We can definitely bump that
to 2.7, and take this patch as-is.

~Andrew