Re: [Swig-user] syntax error from templated forward class declaration

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Nitro wrote:
> Am 24.01.2007, 22:52 Uhr, schrieb William S Fulton
> <ws...@fu...>:
> 
>> Nitro wrote:
>>> Am 23.01.2007, 06:09 Uhr, schrieb Haimo Zobernig
>>> <Hai...@ce...>:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Using: Swig 1.3.31, C++, Python2.4.2, Linux
>>>> I am getting a syntax error in a templated class forward declaration,
>>>> like this
>>>>
>>>> % swig -Wall -c++ -python -classic -I<somepath> -o A_wrap.cxx A.i
>>>>
>>>> <somepath>/someplace/B.hh:29: Error: Syntax error in input(1).
>>>>
>>>> How can I get around this without changing the header file, which I
>>>> don't own?
>>>> My %ignore aClassIwantToIgnore; seems to have now effect.
>>>
>>> Instead of %including the header you can always copy it into the
>>> interface
>>> file, delete the offending line and that's it.
>>>
>> Mmm, yup, SWIG doesn't seem to parse some forward templated class
>> declarations. Please log this as a bug noting that:
>>
>>   template  <class A, class B, class C> class aClassIwantToIgnore;
>>
>> parses okay, but the following does not:
>>
>>   template  <class, class, class> class aClassIwantToIgnore;
>>
>> I'm afraid I can't think of any other workarounds.
>>
>> William
>>
> 
> That bug is already two times in the db (
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1538522&group_id=1645&atid=101645
> and
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1338527&group_id=1645&atid=101645
> ), so no need to log it again.
> 

Indeed so it is. I've just fixed it though in svn, if you want give it a
whirl.

William