[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-SVN] r38872 - grass/trunk

[Hamish]

> Hamish wrote:
> > in related issues swig/python/ still fails to build due to
> > too-old(?) swig ver 1.3.29, [...]

Glynn:
> AFAIK, that version with SWIG will work with older versions of Python. 
> The core problem is that your distro ships a version of of SWIG which
> isn't compatible with their version of Python

Debian/Etch, swig 1.3.29-2.1, 2.4.4-3+etch2.

Swig+python used to work on this machine up until a couple of months
ago, about the time of the automatic .h -> .i changes. I don't really
know but I figured the two were related somehow.
I should check the archives, I've got a funny feeling this has been
explained to me a number of times already. (hence my suspicion that
my copy of swig was too old now)


> (or have you upgraded Python manually?).

nope; but it is slighly possible a security update package gone wrong
might have altered something.


> A configure check would need to use SWIG to generate a
> Python wrapper, then try to compile it.

FWIW the error is as so:

[...]
gcc -I/usr/local/src/grass/svn/grass65/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include  -ggdb -march=pentium4 -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration    -fPIC   -DPACKAGE=\""grasslibs"\" -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 -I/usr/include/python2.4    -DPACKAGE=\""grasslibs"\"  -I/usr/include/gdal -I/usr/include/gdal -I/usr/local/src/grass/svn/grass65/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -o OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu/utils_wrap.o -c utils_wrap.c
utils_wrap.c: In function 'pyseq_to_ptr':
utils_wrap.c:2495: error: 'Py_ssize_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
utils_wrap.c:2495: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
utils_wrap.c:2495: error: for each function it appears in.)
utils_wrap.c:2495: error: expected ';' before 'len'
utils_wrap.c:2522: error: 'len' undeclared (first use in this function)
utils_wrap.c: In function 'pyobj_to_ptr':
utils_wrap.c:2570: error: 'Py_ssize_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
utils_wrap.c:2570: error: expected ';' before 'len'
[...]


thanks,
Hamish