[gdal-dev] swig error on SVN trunk in python

[Frank Warmerdam]

Gregory, Matthew wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I updated trunk (revision 16087) and rebuilt GDAL.  My configuration is
> Windows XP/VC7/Python24/swigwin-1.3.33.  I rebuilt the core using
> makegdal71 without issues, but when I do 'nmake /f makefile.vc python'
> from within the swig directory, I get an error message:
> 
>   ../include/python\ogr_python.i(999999): Error: Missing #endif for 
>   conditional starting on line 225
>   NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\swig\swigwin-1.3.33\swig.exe' : return
> code '0x1'
> 
> I note that ../include/python/ogr_python.i was updated on January 9.  If
> I 
> uncomment lines 225 and 226 (as it was in the prevision revision),
> everything builds fine.  
> 
> Given that the error message doesn't seem to fit the python code, I'm
> guessing that I'm doing something incorrectly in my setup.  I tried this
> with Python25 with similar results.  Any help is appreciated.

Matt,

I believe the "# if" was being treated as a C preprocessor #if directive.
I have committed an extra # in ogr_python.i and this seems to correct the
problem.  Thanks for the report.

Best regards,
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