Trying to build dev-python/m2crypto-0.18 with python2.5 and swig 1.3.32 fails swig -python -I/usr/include/python2.5 -I/usr/include -o SWIG/_m2crypto_wrap.c SWIG/_m2crypto.i SWIG/_x509.i:282: Error: Illegal token '\'. Reproducible: Always
Same problem. mark@jane ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:17:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://www.lanfear.net/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns alsa asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga divx4linux dpms dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dynagraph edl emacs emboss encode escreen ethereal evo exif faac faad fame fb ffmpeg firefox flac fltk font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fpx freetype gd gdbm geoip gif gimpprint glibc-omitfp glut gnutls gphoto2 graphviz gs gsm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv idea imagemagick imap innodb isdnlog javascript jbig jikes jpeg lcms ldap libcaca live logrotate lua lzo mad mailwrapper matroska mbox midi mikmod milter mjpeg mmap mmx mng mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap musepack ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pam_chroot pam_timestamp pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl perlsuid pic plotutils png portaudio ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radiotap rar readline real reflection rtc ruby samba sdl session silc slp smime sndfile snmp speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl subtitles svg syslog tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd vidix vorbis vorbis-psy win32codecs wmf wxgtk1 x86 xanim xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid yv12 zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Couldn't reproduce it using swig-1.3.33. Since swig-1.3.32 isn't in the tree anymore I guess that this issue is solved with swig's version bump. Please reopen if not. Thanks.