Mesa >= 23.3.x and python 2.6 ...

[Jordan Justen]

On 2024-01-19 12:24:24, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Hi Jordan
> 
> Thanks for digging into this!
> 
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:10:37PM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote:
> > On 2024-01-18 04:37:52, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I noticed that with version 23.3.x Mesa no longer can be built with python
> > > 2.6. It still worked with Mesa 23.2.1.
> > 
> > As mentioned in other emails, this was typo where 3.6 was intended.
> > 
> > > 
> > > It fails with
> > > 
> > > [   95s] Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > [   95s]   File "../src/intel/genxml/gen_bits_header.py", line 23, in <module>
> > > [   95s]     import intel_genxml
> > > [   95s]   File "/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/mesa-23.3.3/src/intel/genxml/intel_
> > > genxml.py", line 5
> > > [   95s]     from __future__ import annotations
> > > [   95s]     ^
> > > [   95s] SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
> > > 
> > 
> > I guess this code first appeared in Dylan's:
> > 
> > 4fd2e15855d ("intel/genxml: add type annotations to gen_sort_tags.py")
> > 
> > and then became part of the standard tests a few commits later in:
> > 
> > 1f0a0a46d97 ("meson: run genxml sort tests")
> > 
> > back in Oct 2022. So, I guess at that point 'ninja test' would have
> > failed with Python 3.6.
> > 
> > Then, I suppose I propagated this to being used on every build in:
> > 
> > 0495f952d48 ("intel/genxml: Add genxml_import.py script")
> > 
> > in Sept 2023.
> 
> Thanks. This explains why I've found this code already in older releases, but
> it didn't fail for me yet. You said tests. Is this just a test, I could
> disable (as dirty hack)? I was assuming it would generate code ...

In 0495f952d48, I moved in to a common file, and essentially, now it's
used by our script that runs during the build in addition to the test.

It was "fun" finding a way to get python 3.6 :), but after that, I
think I found a way to make Python 3.6 work. I guess you can try it
out:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/jljusten/mesa/-/commits/intel-genxml-python3.6

In my light testing, Python 3.6 through 3.13 seemed to work. Python
3.5 did *not* work.

-Jordan