[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

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[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

Irit Katriel added the comment: I think this was fixed in 11599. Any objections to closing this? -- nosy: +iritkatriel resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> pending superseder: -> Useless error message when distutils fails compiling ___ Python

[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Lists are used because that’s what the UNIX exec call accepts, or the constructor of subprocess.Popen. About using %r in error messages, see also #11599. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker

[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4672 ___

[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org added the comment: Dumb question, but why is distutils wrapping the command args in quotes anyway? I'm not even sure why lists are being used (rather than a string) for the options, except that lists are a bit more Pythony and can be used to semantically divide

[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: Good suggestion, I'll add the quotes in the spawn call Which does a simple log.info(string.join(cmd, ' ')) at the moment -- assignee: - tarek nosy: +tarek versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 -Python 2.5

[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

William Fulton w...@fultondesigns.co.uk added the comment: This error can be replicated on the command line with suitable quoting of the -outdir option: swig -c++ -outdir . You need to pass the options correctly by separating them out, so use: swig_opts=['-c++', '-...@hepmcincpath@',

[issue4672] Distutils SWIG support blocks use of SWIG -outdir option

New submission from Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org: When using distutils to build an extension module using SWIG, it makes most sense to use the built-in SWIG support. However, the distutils seem to vet the options passed via the Extension.swig_opts attr/arg: [...]