Manual.md: add instructions for PEP 517 Python package build backends

Closes: #30552 [via git-merge-pr]
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Kye Shi 2021-04-27 12:50:44 -07:00 committed by Andrew J. Hesford
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@ -1531,7 +1531,8 @@ This sets some environment variables required to allow cross compilation. Suppor
building a python module for multiple versions from a single template is also possible.
The `python3-pep517` build style provides means to build python packages that provide a build-system
definition compliant with [PEP 517](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/) without a traditional
`setup.py` script.
`setup.py` script. The `python3-pep517` build style does not provide a specific build backend, so
packages will need to add an appropriate backend provider to `hostmakedepends`.
Python packages that rely on `python3-setuptools` should generally map `setup_requires`
dependencies in `setup.py` to `hostmakedepends` in the template and `install_requires`