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+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+inherit setuptools3-base python_pep517
+
+DEPENDS += "python3-setuptools-native python3-wheel-native"
+
+SETUPTOOLS_BUILD_ARGS ?= ""
+
+SETUPTOOLS_SETUP_PATH ?= "${S}"
+
+setuptools3_do_configure() {
+    :
+}
+
+setuptools3_do_compile() {
+        cd ${SETUPTOOLS_SETUP_PATH}
+        NO_FETCH_BUILD=1 \
+        STAGING_INCDIR=${STAGING_INCDIR} \
+        STAGING_LIBDIR=${STAGING_LIBDIR} \
+        ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/${PYTHON_PN}-native/${PYTHON_PN} setup.py \
+        bdist_wheel --verbose --dist-dir ${PEP517_WHEEL_PATH} ${SETUPTOOLS_BUILD_ARGS} || \
+        bbfatal_log "'${PYTHON_PN} setup.py bdist_wheel ${SETUPTOOLS_BUILD_ARGS}' execution failed."
+}
+setuptools3_do_compile[vardepsexclude] = "MACHINE"
+do_compile[cleandirs] += "${PEP517_WHEEL_PATH}"
+
+# This could be removed in the future but some recipes in meta-oe still use it
+setuptools3_do_install() {
+        python_pep517_do_install
+}
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_configure do_compile do_install
+
+export LDSHARED="${CCLD} -shared"