New submission from Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>: This change shows a regression (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449734), the setup.py file might not be correct, but it did work before this change (with plain distutils). Quoting from the report:
Set setup.py file looks like this: setup(name='update-manager', ... ext_modules=[Extension('UpdateManager/fdsend', ['UpdateManager/fdsend/fdsend.c'])], ... With 2.6.4~rc1 the logs read: copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/fdsend.so -> /tmp/buildd/update-manager-0.126.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages With 2.6.3: copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/UpdateManager/fdsend.so -> /home/egon/devel/update-manager/checkout/build-area/update-manager-0.126.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager So it looks like python is eating a prefix. http://bugs.python.org/issue7064 is why this change was made. Reading that, it was done because setuptools assumes that the method is always called with the full dotted name, when it was just being called with the last part of it. However, update-manager isn't using a dotted module path anyway, it's passing a path. http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#extension-names-and-packages shows that you would be expected to use ext_modules=[Extension('UpdateManager.fdsend', ['UpdateManager/fdsend/fdsend.c'])], (note . not / in the first line) ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils messages: 93908 nosy: barry, doko, tarek priority: release blocker severity: normal status: open title: extension module builds fail when using paths in the extension name versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7115> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com