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>

pylibfdt/Makefile.pylibfdt

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause)
-# Makefile.pylibfdt
-#
-
-PYLIBFDT_srcs = $(PYLIBFDT_dir)/libfdt.i
-PYMODULE = $(PYLIBFDT_dir)/_libfdt.so
-PYLIBFDT_CLEANFILES_L = libfdt_wrap.c libfdt.py *.pyc *.so
-PYLIBFDT_CLEANFILES = $(PYLIBFDT_CLEANFILES_L:%=$(PYLIBFDT_dir)/%)
-PYLIBFDT_CLEANDIRS_L = __pycache__ libfdt.egg-info
-PYLIBFDT_CLEANDIRS = build $(PYLIBFDT_CLEANDIRS_L:%=$(PYLIBFDT_dir)/%)
-
-SETUP = ./setup.py
-
-ifndef V
-SETUPFLAGS += --quiet
-endif
-
-$(PYMODULE): WARNINGS =  # suppress warnings from generated code
-$(PYMODULE): $(PYLIBFDT_srcs) $(LIBFDT_archive) $(SETUP)
-	@$(VECHO) PYMOD $@
-	CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS) -Wno-error" $(PYTHON) $(SETUP) $(SETUPFLAGS) build_ext
-
-install_pylibfdt: $(PYMODULE)
-	@$(VECHO) INSTALL-PYLIB
-	$(PYTHON) $(SETUP) $(SETUPFLAGS) install --prefix=$(PREFIX)
-
-pylibfdt_clean:
-	@$(VECHO) CLEAN "(pylibfdt)"
-	rm -f $(PYLIBFDT_CLEANFILES)
-	rm -rf $(PYLIBFDT_CLEANDIRS)

pylibfdt/meson.build

@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
-setup_py = find_program('../setup.py')
-setup_py = [setup_py, '--quiet', '--top-builddir', meson.project_build_root()]
-
-pylibfdt = custom_target(
-  'pylibfdt',
+libfdt_c = custom_target(
+  'swig',
   input: 'libfdt.i',
-  depends: libfdt,
-  output: '_libfdt.so',
-  command: [setup_py, 'build_ext'],
-  build_by_default: true,
+  output: ['libfdt.c', 'libfdt.py'],
+  install: true,
+  install_dir: [false, py.get_install_dir(pure: false)],
+  command: [swig, '-python', '-I'+meson.current_source_dir() / '../libfdt', '-o', '@OUTPUT0@', '@INPUT@']
 )
 
-meson.add_install_script(setup_py, 'install', '--prefix=' + get_option('prefix'), '--root=$DESTDIR')
+nowarn_gen = cc.get_supported_arguments(
+  '-Wno-cast-qual',
+  '-Wno-missing-prototypes',
+  '-Wno-redundant-decls',
+)
+pylibfdt = py.extension_module(
+  '_libfdt',
+  libfdt_c,
+  c_args: ['-DPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN'] + nowarn_gen,
+  dependencies: [libfdt_dep, py.dependency()],
+  install: true,
+)