The APIs described in this chapter are powerful but even harder to use
than those described in python-r1
chapter. You should not consider
using them unless you have a proper ninja training.
.. index:: python_gen_useflags
There are packages that have been ported to Python 3 only partially. They may still have some optional dependencies that support Python 2 only, they may have some components that do not support Python 3 yet. The opposite is also possible — some of the features being available only for Python 3.
There are two approaches to this problem. You can either skip features
(ignore USE flags) if the necessary implementation is not enabled,
or you can use REQUIRED_USE
to enforce at least one interpreter
having the requested feature.
Skipping specific tasks can be done via investigating ${EPYTHON}
.
If USE flags are involved, you will probably also need to use
python_gen_cond_dep
with additional parameters restricting
dependencies to available targets.
# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=7
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} pypy3 )
PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
inherit distutils-r1
DESCRIPTION="HTTP library for human beings"
HOMEPAGE="http://python-requests.org/"
SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
IUSE="socks5 +ssl test"
RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
RDEPEND="
>=dev-python/certifi-2017.4.17[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>=dev-python/chardet-3.0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
<dev-python/chardet-4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>=dev-python/idna-2.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
<dev-python/idna-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
<dev-python/urllib3-1.26[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
socks5? ( >=dev-python/PySocks-1.5.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
ssl? (
>=dev-python/cryptography-1.3.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>=dev-python/pyopenssl-0.14[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
)
"
BDEPEND="
dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
test? (
$(python_gen_cond_dep '
${RDEPEND}
dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
dev-python/pytest-httpbin[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
dev-python/pytest-mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>=dev-python/PySocks-1.5.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
' 'python*')
)
"
python_test() {
# tests hang with pypy & pypy3
[[ ${EPYTHON} == pypy* ]] && continue
epytest
}
Enforcing implementations is done via putting ||
block with all
targets providing the feature in REQUIRED_USE
. The eclass provides
python_gen_useflags
function to print valid flag names for specified
implementation list. Please always use this function instead of listing
actual flag names as it handled phasing implementations out gracefully.
python_gen_cond_dep
should also be called with matching target
list.
# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=7
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6..8} )
PYTHON_REQ_USE="sqlite"
inherit distutils-r1
DESCRIPTION="Toolkit to convert between many translation formats"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/translate/translate"
SRC_URI="https://github.com/translate/translate/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
IUSE="+subtitles"
REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
subtitles? ( || ( $(python_gen_useflags python3_{6,7}) ) )"
DEPEND=">=dev-python/six-1.10.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
!dev-python/pydiff
app-text/iso-codes
>=dev-python/chardet-3.0.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>=dev-python/lxml-3.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>=dev-python/pycountry-18.5.26[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>=dev-python/python-levenshtein-0.12.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
sys-devel/gettext
subtitles? (
$(python_gen_cond_dep '
media-video/gaupol[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
' python3_{6,7})
)
"
.. index:: python_setup; with implementation parameter
.. index:: DISTUTILS_ALL_SUBPHASE_IMPLS
A specific case of the restriction described above is when the build step supports a subset of Python targets for the runtime part. This could happen e.g. if package's Python bindings have been ported to Python 3 but the test suite or building tooling still requires Python 2.
To support this use case, python_setup
can optionally take a list
of implementations. This list must be a subset of PYTHON_COMPAT
,
and only implementation on the list can be used by python_setup
.
Note that you also need to set matching REQUIRED_USE
, as otherwise
the function will fail if the user does not enable any of the supported
targets.
# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=6
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{5..7} )
inherit python-r1 toolchain-funcs
DESCRIPTION="Python extension module generator for C and C++ libraries"
HOMEPAGE="https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/intro"
SRC_URI="https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/${PN}/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
# Sub-slot based on SIP_API_MAJOR_NR from siplib/sip.h
SLOT="0/12"
LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2 GPL-3 SIP )"
KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
|| ( $(python_gen_useflags 'python2*') )"
RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
sys-devel/bison
sys-devel/flex
src_prepare() {
python_setup 'python2*'
"${EPYTHON}" build.py prepare || die
default
}
src_configure() {
configuration() {
local myconf=(
"${EPYTHON}"
"${S}"/configure.py
--bindir="${EPREFIX}/usr/bin"
--destdir="$(python_get_sitedir)"
--incdir="$(python_get_includedir)"
)
echo "${myconf[@]}"
"${myconf[@]}" || die
}
python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir configuration
}
src_compile() {
python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir default
}
src_install() {
installation() {
emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
python_optimize
}
python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir installation
einstalldocs
}
The distutils-r1
equivalent of python_setup
parameters is
the DISTUTILS_ALL_SUBPHASE_IMPLS
variable. Alternatively to global
scope, it can be set in an early phase function (prior to any sub-phase
call).
# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=5
PYTHON_COMPAT=(
pypy
python3_5 python3_6 python3_7
python2_7
)
PYTHON_REQ_USE='bzip2(+),ssl(+),threads(+)'
inherit distutils-r1
DESCRIPTION="Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo"
HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage"
SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/${P}.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"
SLOT="0"
IUSE="epydoc"
REQUIRED_USE="epydoc? ( $(python_gen_useflags 'python2*') )"
DEPEND="
>=app-arch/tar-1.27
>=sys-apps/sed-4.0.5 sys-devel/patch
epydoc? (
$(python_gen_cond_dep '
>=dev-python/epydoc-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
' 'python2*')
)"
RDEPEND="
>=app-arch/tar-1.27
dev-lang/python-exec:2
>=sys-apps/sed-4.0.5
app-shells/bash:0[readline]
>=app-admin/eselect-1.2
elibc_glibc? ( >=sys-apps/sandbox-2.2 )
kernel_linux? ( sys-apps/util-linux )
>=app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.17"
PDEPEND="
>=net-misc/rsync-2.6.4
userland_GNU? ( >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 )"
pkg_setup() {
use epydoc && DISTUTILS_ALL_SUBPHASE_IMPLS=( python2.7 )
}
python_compile_all() {
if use epydoc; then
esetup.py epydoc
fi
}
Note that when the restriction is caused by dependencies rather than package's files, the any-r1 API described below is preferable to this.
.. index:: python_gen_any_dep; python-r1
.. index:: python_check_deps; python-r1
Some packages have disjoint sets of runtime and pure build-time
dependencies. The former need to be built for all enabled
implementations, the latter only for one of them. The any-r1 API
in python-r1
is specifically suited for expressing that.
Let's consider an example package that uses Sphinx with a plugin to build documentation. Naturally, you're going to build the documents only once, not separately for every enabled target.
If you were using the regular API, you'd have to use
${PYTHON_USEDEP}
on the dependencies. The resulting code could look
like the following:
BDEPEND="
doc? (
dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
)"
src_compile() {
...
if use doc; then
python_setup
emake -C docs html
fi
}
If your package is built with support for Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8, then this dependency string will enforce the same targets for Sphinx and the theme. However, in practice it will only be used through Python 3.8. Normally, this is not such a big deal.
Now imagine your package supports Python 2.7 as well, while Sphinx
does not anymore. This means that your package will force downgrade
to the old version of dev-python/sphinx
even though it will not
be used via Python 2.7 at all.
As the name suggests, the any-r1 API resembles the API used
by python-any-r1
eclass. The disjoint build-time dependencies
are declared using python_gen_any_dep
, and need to be tested
via python_check_deps()
function. The presence of the latter
function activates the alternate behavior of python_setup
. Instead
of selecting one of the enabled targets, it will run it to verify
installed dependencies and use one having all dependencies satisfied.
BDEPEND="
doc? (
$(python_gen_any_dep '
dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
')
)"
python_check_deps() {
python_has_version "dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" &&
python_has_version "dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
}
src_compile() {
...
if use doc; then
python_setup
emake -C docs html
fi
}
Note that python_setup
may select an implementation that is not even
enabled via PYTHON_TARGETS
. The goal is to try hard to avoid
requiring user to change USE flags on dependencies if possible.
An interesting side effect of that is that the supported targets
in the dependencies can be a subset of the one in package. For example,
we have used this API to add Python 3.8 support to packages before
dev-python/sphinx
supported it — the eclass implicitly forced using
another implementation for Sphinx.
Let's consider the case when Python is used at build-time for something
else still. In that case, we want python_setup
to work
unconditionally but enforce dependencies only with doc
flag enabled.
BDEPEND="
doc? (
$(python_gen_any_dep '
dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
')
)"
python_check_deps() {
use doc || return 0
python_has_version "dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" &&
python_has_version "dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
}
src_compile() {
python_setup
...
use doc && emake -C docs html
}
Note that python_setup
behaves according to the any-r1 API here.
While it will not enforce doc dependencies with doc
flag disabled,
it will use any interpreter that is supported and installed, even
if it is not enabled explicitly in PYTHON_TARGETS
.
The alternate build dependency API also integrates with distutils-r1
eclass. If python_check_deps()
is declared, the python_*_all()
sub-phase functions are called with the interpreter selected according
to any-r1 rules.
BDEPEND="
doc? (
$(python_gen_any_dep '
dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
')
)"
python_check_deps() {
use doc || return 0
python_has_version "dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" &&
python_has_version "dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
}
python_compile_all() {
use doc && emake -C docs html
}
Note that distutils-r1
calls python_setup
unconditionally,
therefore python_check_deps()
needs to account for that.
Normally you won't have to use this API for Sphinx though —
distutils_enable_sphinx
does precisely that for you.
Both APIs described above can be combined. This can be used when
build-time scripts support a subset of implementations supported
by the package itself, and by its build-time dependencies. For example,
if the package uses dev-util/scons
build system with SConstruct
files using Python 2 construct.
There are two approaches to achieve that: either the build-time
implementation list needs to be passed to python_setup
,
or python_check_deps
needs to explicitly reject unsupported targets.
In both cases, a matching implementation list needs to be passed
to python_gen_any_dep
.
# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=7
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_6 )
inherit python-r1 toolchain-funcs
DESCRIPTION="GPS daemon and library for USB/serial GPS devices and GPS/mapping clients"
HOMEPAGE="https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/"
SRC_URI="mirror://nongnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="BSD"
SLOT="0/24"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
IUSE="python"
REQUIRED_USE="
python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
RDEPEND="
>=net-misc/pps-tools-0.0.20120407
python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
$(python_gen_any_dep '>=dev-util/scons-2.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
virtual/pkgconfig"
python_check_deps() {
python_has_version ">=dev-util/scons-2.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
}
src_configure() {
myesconsargs=(
prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr"
libdir="\$prefix/$(get_libdir)"
udevdir="$(get_udevdir)"
chrpath=False
gpsd_user=gpsd
gpsd_group=uucp
nostrip=True
manbuild=False
$(use_scons python)
)
# SConstruct uses py2 constructs
python_setup -2
}
# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=7
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_6 )
inherit python-r1 toolchain-funcs
DESCRIPTION="GPS daemon and library for USB/serial GPS devices and GPS/mapping clients"
HOMEPAGE="https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/"
SRC_URI="mirror://nongnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="BSD"
SLOT="0/24"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
IUSE="python"
REQUIRED_USE="
python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
RDEPEND="
>=net-misc/pps-tools-0.0.20120407
python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
$(python_gen_any_dep '>=dev-util/scons-2.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
virtual/pkgconfig"
python_check_deps() {
python_is_python3 && return 1
python_has_version ">=dev-util/scons-2.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
}
src_configure() {
myesconsargs=(
prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr"
libdir="\$prefix/$(get_libdir)"
udevdir="$(get_udevdir)"
chrpath=False
gpsd_user=gpsd
gpsd_group=uucp
nostrip=True
manbuild=False
$(use_scons python)
)
python_setup
}