If anyone has suggestions about how to get started with this, I may be able to put in some effort.  But at this point I'm not even sure where to start.

Just to document where I got stuck:

camke-extra-modules includes:
/usr/share/ECM/find-modules/FindPythonModuleGeneration.cmake

which looks for libclang and fails on fedora.  As far as I can tell, it's looking for libclang-X.Y.so, which is something that fedora's llvm/clang packaging doesn't seem to provide.

Manually specifying:
 -Dlibclang_LIBRARY:PATH=%{_libdir}/libclang.so

gets a little further:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ECM/find-modules/sip_generator.py", line 41, in <module>
    from clang import cindex
ImportError: No module named clang
-- sip_generator failed a self-check for the PythonModuleGeneration Module.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ECM/find-modules/sip_generator.py", line 41, in <module>
    from clang import cindex
ImportError: No module named clang
-- sip_generator failed a self-check for the PythonModuleGeneration Module.

Followup, following bug #1490997 , once we have clang python bindings available at buildtime, builds generally(*) succeed (tested using kf5-kconfig-5.38 module at least).


(*) generally, modulo other issues: doesn't reliably support shadow/out-of-src-tree or parallel builds

One possibility is that we just include the three or four python files needed directly in the package, so that we can at least have a package to test.  They're only used at build time in any case.  It should be possible to just copy them someplace in the source directory in after %autosetup and then export PYTHONPATH so that they're used.

Good idea.

next, could consider bundling them somewhere in kf5 or extra-cmake-modules (or whatever) to be usable by all kf5- framework packages with python bindings

Comment #3 issue upstream at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372311

To document progress, I have a proof-of-concept implented in kf5-kconfig (tier1) package, to provide python bindings.

Now that python2-clang is available everywhere at least.  Of course now have to deal with python2 deprecation in f30+