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 <s...@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 ?

-- 
Tom

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