Fix cmake builds with Python 3.12, which deleted the long-deprecated 'distutils' module #13583
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If performing a cmake build with Python 3.11 or earlier, everything works fine; however, if using Python 3.12 the cmake build fails with
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'. This is because thedistutilsmodule was deleted in Python 3.12 (see https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ and https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#distutils).The problem was coming from nanopb which referenced the
distutilsmodule in itsCMakeLists.txt. The fix was to copy the replacement command that works in Python 3.12, and should work all the way back to Python 3.7 (see nanopb/nanopb#727 and nanopb/nanopb#730). This PR merely tweaks the patching that is already done on nanopb.Here is what the error looks like, which this PR fixes:
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