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+/llvmlite-0.37.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-llvmlite.spec b/python-llvmlite.spec
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+%bcond_without tests
+
+%global forgeurl     https://github.com/numba/llvmlite
+
+Name:           python-llvmlite
+Version:        0.37.0
+Release:        %{autorelease}
+Summary:        Lightweight LLVM Python binding for writing JIT compilers
+
+%forgemeta
+
+License:        BSD
+URL:            http://llvmlite.pydata.org/
+Source0:        %{forgesource}
+
+BuildRequires:  pyproject-rpm-macros
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+# 0.37.0 only supports llvm11
+BuildRequires:  llvm11-devel
+BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+
+%global _description %{expand:
+llvmlite provides a Python binding to LLVM for use in Numba.
+
+Numba previously relied on llvmpy.  While llvmpy exposed large parts of the
+LLVM C++ API for direct calls into the LLVM library, llvmlite takes an entirely
+different approach. Llvmlite starts from the needs of a JIT compiler and splits
+them into two decoupled tasks:
+
+- Construction of a Module, function by function, Instruction by instruction.
+- Compilation and optimization of the module into machine code.
+
+The construction of an LLVM module does not call the LLVM C++ API. Rather, it
+constructs the LLVM intermediate representation (IR) in pure Python. This is
+the role of the IR layer.
+
+The compilation of an LLVM module takes the IR in textual form and feeds it
+into LLVM's parsing API. It then returns a thin wrapper around LLVM's C++
+module object. This is the role of the binding layer.
+
+Once parsed, the module's source code cannot be modified, which loses the
+flexibility of the direct mapping of C++ APIs into Python that was provided by
+llvmpy but saves a great deal of maintenance.}
+
+
+%description %_description
+
+%package -n python3-llvmlite
+Summary:        %{summary}
+
+
+%description -n python3-llvmlite %_description
+
+%package doc
+Summary:        %{summary}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist sphinx}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_dist sphinx-rtd-theme}
+
+%description doc
+Documentation for %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%forgesetup
+
+# seems to be fine with 3.10 but we need to remove the guard
+# https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/740
+sed -i 's/max_python_version =.*/max_python_version = "3.11"/' setup.py
+
+# increase verbosity of tests to 2
+sed -i 's/\(def run_tests.*verbosity=\)1/\12/' llvmlite/tests/__init__.py
+
+# Comment out to remove /usr/bin/env shebangs
+# Can use something similar to correct/remove /usr/bin/python shebangs also
+# find . -type f -name "*.py" -exec sed -i '/^#![  ]*\/usr\/bin\/env.*$/ d' {} 2>/dev/null ';'
+
+%generate_buildrequires
+%pyproject_buildrequires
+
+%build
+export LLVM_CONFIG="%{_libdir}/llvm11/bin/llvm-config"
+%pyproject_wheel
+
+make -C docs SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build-3 html
+rm -rf docs/_build/html/{.doctrees,.buildinfo,_static/EMPTY} -vf
+
+%install
+%pyproject_install
+%pyproject_save_files llvmlite
+
+%check
+%if %{with tests}
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH="%{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch}/llvmlite/binding/" PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:%{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch}:%{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib}" %{python3} runtests.py
+%endif
+
+%files -n python3-llvmlite -f %{pyproject_files}
+%doc CHANGE_LOG README.rst
+
+%files doc
+%license LICENSE
+%doc docs/_build/html examples/
+
+%changelog
+%autochangelog
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+SHA512 (llvmlite-0.37.0.tar.gz) = 665f486fd38c9cc4ee91b15fc75f33451ada6391fc9f1b371091ece844693e0cd8e23766400bf76d9879e8f10f53f4e21f8bb19f3ff1e01c4a95ce9004b0884a