On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:19:35AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
The Python virtualenv tool sets up a few things in the envronment, putting its path first in the PATH environment variable and setting up a sys.prefix different from the sys.base_prefix value.
At present buildman puts the toolchain path first in PATH so that it can be found easily during the build. For sandbox this causes problems since /usr/bin/gcc (for example) results in '/usr/bin' being prepended to the PATH variable. As a result, the venv is partially disabled.
The result is that sandbox builds within a venv ignore the venv, e.g. when looking for packages.
Correct this by detecting the venv and adding the toolchain path after the venv path.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Why are we using PATH at all in this case? Shouldn't we just be setting CROSS_COMPILE=/full/path/to/the/prefix ?