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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause)
+
+# While Python 3 is the default, it's also possible to invoke
+# this setup.py script with Python 2.
+
+"""
+setup.py file for SWIG libfdt
+Copyright (C) 2017 Google, Inc.
+Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+"""
+
+from setuptools import setup, Extension
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+srcdir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+def get_top_builddir():
+    if '--top-builddir' in sys.argv:
+        index = sys.argv.index('--top-builddir')
+        sys.argv.pop(index)
+        return sys.argv.pop(index)
+    else:
+        return srcdir
+
+top_builddir = get_top_builddir()
+
+libfdt_module = Extension(
+    '_libfdt',
+    sources=[os.path.join(srcdir, 'pylibfdt/libfdt.i')],
+    include_dirs=[os.path.join(srcdir, 'libfdt')],
+    libraries=['fdt'],
+    library_dirs=[os.path.join(top_builddir, 'libfdt')],
+    swig_opts=['-I' + os.path.join(srcdir, 'libfdt')],
+)
+
+setup(
+    name='libfdt',
+    use_scm_version={
+        "root": srcdir,
+    },
+    setup_requires = ['setuptools_scm'],
+    author='Simon Glass',
+    author_email='sjg@chromium.org',
+    description='Python binding for libfdt',
+    ext_modules=[libfdt_module],
+    package_dir={'': os.path.join(srcdir, 'pylibfdt')},
+    py_modules=['libfdt'],
+)