6.34. distutils*.bbclass

The distutils* classes support recipes for Python version 2.x extensions, which are simple. These recipes usually only need to point to the source's archive and then inherit the proper class. Building is split into two methods depending on which method the module authors used.

The distutils-common-base class is required by some of the distutils* classes to provide common Python2 support.

The distutils-tools class supports recipes for additional "distutils" tools.