create.sh fails to successfully build libnbd without python setuptools #290
Description
Version used
2.39
Describe the bug
When running the create.sh script to build virtnbdbackup in a Python virtual environment, the build of the libnbd python bindings fails with the error shown below. There are also warnings when running ./configure from the script.
Expected behavior
The provided script should complete successfully.
Logfiles:
Configure warnings:
checking for Python site-packages path... Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
import distutils.sysconfig; print (distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0));
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
checking for Python extension suffix (PEP-3149)... Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
import distutils.sysconfig; print (distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX') or distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
Build error:
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/python3.13 -I../include -I../common/include -I../common/utils -g -O2 -MT libnbdmod_la-methods.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libnbdmod_la-methods.Tpo -c methods.c -o libnbdmod_la-methods.o >/dev/null 2>&1
mv -f .deps/libnbdmod_la-methods.Tpo .deps/libnbdmod_la-methods.Plo
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -avoid-version -shared -module -shrext -o libnbdmod.la -rpath libnbdmod_la-handle.lo libnbdmod_la-libnbdmod.lo libnbdmod_la-methods.lo libnbdmod_la-utils.lo ../common/utils/libutils.la ../lib/libnbd.la
libtool: error: only absolute run-paths are allowed
Workaround:
Installing python setuptools prior to configuring libnbd removes the warnings and errors. Apparently setuptools was removed as a core venv dependency in python 3.12 (reference).
--- ./venv/create.sh
+++ ./venv/create.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
virtualenv -p $(which python3) ${VENVDIR}
git clone https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup.git -b ${BRANCH}
source ${VENVDIR}/bin/activate
+pip install -U setuptools
curl https://download.libguestfs.org/libnbd/${LIBNBD_MAJ}/${LIBNBD_VERSION}.tar.gz > ${LIBNBD_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar xzf ${LIBNBD_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd ${LIBNBD_VERSION}