From 69c95b5341dc205db46cdbbef5b3f5538cfa21c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Nagy <tnagy@waf.io>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:31:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Provide a replacement for distutils.version.LooseVersion

---
 waflib/Tools/python.py |  7 +++----
 waflib/Utils.py        | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/waflib/Tools/python.py b/waflib/Tools/python.py
index 046b8390..48e2be50 100644
--- a/waflib/Tools/python.py
+++ b/waflib/Tools/python.py
@@ -585,13 +585,12 @@ def check_python_module(conf, module_name, condition=''):
 		if ret == 'unknown version':
 			conf.fatal('Could not check the %s version' % module_name)
 
-		from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 		def num(*k):
 			if isinstance(k[0], int):
-				return LooseVersion('.'.join([str(x) for x in k]))
+				return Utils.loose_version('.'.join([str(x) for x in k]))
 			else:
-				return LooseVersion(k[0])
-		d = {'num': num, 'ver': LooseVersion(ret)}
+				return Utils.loose_version(k[0])
+		d = {'num': num, 'ver': Utils.loose_version(ret)}
 		ev = eval(condition, {}, d)
 		if not ev:
 			conf.fatal('The %s version does not satisfy the requirements' % module_name)
diff --git a/waflib/Utils.py b/waflib/Utils.py
index 31618cb8..ea0f7a9d 100644
--- a/waflib/Utils.py
+++ b/waflib/Utils.py
@@ -870,6 +870,19 @@ def lib64():
 				return '64'
 	return ''
 
+def loose_version(ver_str):
+	# private for the time being!
+	# see #2402
+	lst = re.split(r'([.]|\\d+|[a-zA-Z])', ver_str)
+	ver = []
+	for i, val in enumerate(lst):
+		try:
+			ver.append(int(val))
+		except ValueError:
+			if val != '.':
+				ver.append(val)
+	return ver
+
 def sane_path(p):
 	# private function for the time being!
 	return os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(p))