-- Remove invalid license-files property from pyproject.toml.
-- The license-files property is not supported by the version of setuptools available on FreeBSD, causing a build failure. It is a relatively new PEP 639 feature.

--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-08-13 07:10:38 UTC
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ requires-python = ">=3.10"
 description = "A video decoder for PyTorch"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 authors = [
     { name = "PyTorch Team", email = "packages@pytorch.org" },
 ]
@@ -18,6 +17,7 @@ build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 
 [tool.scikit-build]
+cmake.args = ["--trace-expand"]
 minimum-version = "build-system.requires"
 build-dir = "build/{wheel_tag}"
 wheel.packages = ["src/torchcodec"]
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ location = "source"
 path = "src/torchcodec/version.py"
 template = "__version__ = '${version}'"
 location = "source"
+
 
 [tool.scikit-build.cmake.define]
 ENABLE_CUDA = {env = "ENABLE_CUDA", default = ""}