Fix gobject-introspection build

[ladaapp]

Hi, recent version of setuptools breaks gobject-introspection build (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/issues/575)

Locally I fixed this via

uv tool install gvsbuild --with "setuptools<81"

So I think for now it's probably best to restrict setuptools upper version

You can see the error also in this PR from dependabot #1717 which updated to latest setuptools

[danyeaw]

Hi @ladaapp, thanks so much for the contribution! I have a patch here that corrects this, just waiting for a review: e7ae272

[ladaapp]

Hmm, I'm wondering if this would then work with setuptools < 81? Maybe better to inspect if CCompiler.init has a dry_run arg (<81) then pass the arg and if not (>=81) then don't.

[danyeaw]

Hi @ladaapp, it should work because we are passing in keyword arguments with the patched version and all the arguments in <81 and >=81 are optional.

You can see the change in the base module here: pypa/setuptools@75a8954#diff-432dd6776972c4ddedab02e1eb654946ac43f98f9cc7fc7663040a6acdcd45b5

[ladaapp]

Okay cool, even better. Thanks for the fix then. Closing.