#8 build fails at swig_sources

[Chris Curvey]

trying "python setup.py build" returns:

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py:222:
UserWarning: 'licence' distribut
ion option is deprecated; use 'license'
warnings.warn(msg)
running build
running build_ext
building '_pcapmodule' extension
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 187, in ?
cmdclass = {'clean': pcapclean,
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/core.py",
line 149, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py",
line 946, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py",
line 966, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build.py",
line 112, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/cmd.py",
line 333, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py",
line 966, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py",
line 279, in r
un
self.build_extensions()
File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py",
line 405, in b
uild_extensions
self.build_extension(ext)
File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py",
line 442, in b
uild_extension
sources = self.swig_sources(sources, ext)
TypeError: swig_sources() takes exactly 2 arguments (3
given)

Not sure if this is something stupid or not, I'm a
complete noob at pcap. Looks like I have pcap
0.8.3-3. Do I need to install a swig library?

[Chris Curvey]

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Now that I've had a chance to actually *read* the stack
trace (and do a bit of Googling), it appears that this is a
known bug in the distutils package. There seems to be some
mention that documentation will improve in the next release
of Python (whatever it is), but I'd love to hear how folks
are compiling this now.

[dterry]

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I get the same error when building on FreeBSD5.4. The work
around is to add a parameter 'ext=None' to swig_sources().
Build still fails however with missing include file 'doc.i'.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I changed

def swig_sources (self, sources):
to:
def swig_sources(self, sources, extension=None):

-C

[Paul Wise]

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I had to download build-tools/docify.py,
build-tools/docify-shadow.py and doc.i from CVS in order to
build pylibpcap. These should really be distributed in the
tarball so the package is buildable.