> 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 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev