pythonPackages.setuptoolsBuildHook: do not build in an isolated environment

When a PEP 517 project file is present, pip will not install
prerequisites in `site-packages`:

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip/#pep-517-and-518-support

For the shell hook, this has the consequence that the generated
temporary directory that is added to PYTHONPATH does not contain
`site.py`. As a result, Python does not discover the Python
module. Thus when a user executes nix-shell in a project, they cannot
import the project's Python module.

This change adds the `--no-build-isolation` option to pip when
creating the editable environment, to correctly generate `site.py`,
even when a `pyproject.toml` is present.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/hooks/setuptools-build-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/hooks/setuptools-build-hook.sh
index 2aec9279382..311590425e6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/hooks/setuptools-build-hook.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/hooks/setuptools-build-hook.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ setuptoolsShellHook() {
         export PATH="$tmp_path/bin:$PATH"
         export PYTHONPATH="$tmp_path/@pythonSitePackages@:$PYTHONPATH"
         mkdir -p "$tmp_path/@pythonSitePackages@"
-        eval "@pythonInterpreter@ -m pip install -e . --prefix $tmp_path >&2"
+        eval "@pythonInterpreter@ -m pip install -e . --prefix $tmp_path \
+          --no-build-isolation >&2"
     fi
 
     runHook postShellHook