Bug 77042 – dev-python/pyrex distutils extension fails with Python 2.4

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jacob Smullyan 2005-01-07 09:35:51 UTC]

Packages that use pyrex and use the pyrex distutils extension -- for instance, dev-python/pyprotocols-0.9.3 -- will fail on install with a distutils error, because the method signature of distutils.build_ext.swig_sources changed in Python 2.4.  The ebuild I'm about to attach patches pyrex 0.9.3 (what is it about 0.9.3?) with a patch Bob Ippolito posted to the pyrex list: 

http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2004-December/001083.html

that fixes this problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install python-2.4 and try to emerge pyprotocols.

[Comment 1 Jacob Smullyan 2005-01-07 09:36:46 UTC]

Created attachment 47866 [details]
dev-python/pyrex ebuild with patch for python 2.4

[Comment 2 Jacob Smullyan 2005-01-07 09:38:09 UTC]

Created attachment 47867 [details, diff]
patch for pyrex (used by ebuild)

This patch should, btw, work with Python 2.3 as well as Python 2.4.

[Comment 3 Rob Cakebread (RETIRED) 2005-01-07 12:52:46 UTC]

Thanks Jacob, added to CVS. I tested it with 2.3.4 and 2.4, no problems.