Importing libraries in Python caches the bytecode by default. Since we run scripts in source tree it ignores the current directory settings, which is $(srctree), and creates cache just in the middle of the source tree. Move cache to the current directory.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com --- tools/binman/main.py | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/binman/main.py b/tools/binman/main.py index 8c1e478d54ce..d5ab59948ec9 100755 --- a/tools/binman/main.py +++ b/tools/binman/main.py @@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ import sys import traceback import unittest
+# +# Do not pollute source tree with cache files: +# https://stackoverflow.com/a/60024195/2511795 +# https://bugs.python.org/issue33499 +# +sys.pycache_prefix = os.path.relpath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), os.environ['srctree']) + # Bring in the patman and dtoc libraries (but don't override the first path # in PYTHONPATH) our_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))