meson: port python bindings to build natively via meson and meson-python

We get full build parallelism and fewer confusing ancient distutils
paths. The python wheels build fully standalone, including linking
libfdt as a static library.

For convenience, when running pip install a meson option is passed that
prevents building tools or installing headers/pkgconfig files.
meson-python would otherwise include them in the wheel itself, in case
they are needed, but this is essentially a bit useless so don't bother.

The old setuptools-based build is now redundant and goes away.

Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>
Message-ID: <20250430152601.43554-3-eschwartz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Eli Schwartz 2025-04-30 11:25:26 -04:00 committed by David Gibson
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commit ecb21febfd
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@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ option('python', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
description: 'Build pylibfdt Python library')
option('tests', type: 'boolean', value: true,
description: 'Build tests')
option('wheel-only', type: 'boolean', value: false,
description: 'building from meson-python')