[Pyrex] Newbie question

[len-l at telus.net]

On 30 Jun 2005 at 8:57, philippe at philippecmartin.com wrote:

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> Q2) I am trying to make in "Pyrex-0.9.3/Demos" and am getting the following 
> errors - anything obvious ?
> 
> PS: I'm under Linux MDK 10.1
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philippe
> ***********************
> [root at pcmsc Demos]# make all
> python Setup.py build_ext --inplace
> running build_ext
> building 'primes' extension
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "Setup.py", line 12, in ?
>     cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext}
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 279, in run
>     self.build_extensions()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 405, in 
> build_extensions
>     self.build_extension(ext)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 442, in 
> build_extension
>     sources = self.swig_sources(sources, ext)
> TypeError: swig_sources() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
> -- 

The problem is with an incompatibilty with the Pyrex 0.9.3 build_ext and the Python 
2.4 disutils library. For now I first compile the pyrex module to C using pyrexc.py, 
then compile the resulting C module (primes.c in the above case) using disutils, no 
build_ext.

Lenard Lindstrom
<len-l at telus.net>