Bug 149623

Summary:	swig / python-2.5 / amd64
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Helmut Jarausch <jarausch>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Chris White (RETIRED) <chriswhite>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	amd64
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	148333
Attachments:	patch to swig-1.3.29

Description Helmut Jarausch 2006-09-30 07:44:06 UTC

Python-2.5 has changed its API by introducing a new typedef 'Py_ssize_t'.
On 64-bits machines this is different from 'int'. This causes failures in all
packages which use SWIG to interface to Python.
The attached tiny patch (taken from SWIG's cvs) fixes this.
But for all packages which use SWIG to interface to Python, the SWIG files
'*.i' need to 'touch' ed, to force the wrapperfiles to be rebuilt.

(Is there an easy way to do this locally? Just unpacking a package in
 /usr/portage/distfiles, 'touch' ing the '*.i' files and packaging again
doesn't work since portage notices any changes - how to fix that?)

Comment 1 Helmut Jarausch 2006-09-30 07:46:22 UTC

Created attachment 98446 [details, diff]
patch to  swig-1.3.29

When switching to Python-2.5, python-updater should me sure that the most
recent version of SWIG is used (e.g. 1.3.29-r2) since all prior versions
are broken with Python-2.5

Comment 2 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-07 13:50:47 UTC

Fixed in swig-1.3.31.