Can't get pylibpcap extension to build under 2.4

[Grant Edwards]

I've been using the pylibpcap extension module for several
years, but I can't get it to build under 2.4:

   $ python setup.py build
   /usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py:222: UserWarning: 'licence' distribution 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/lib/python2.4/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
       dist.run_commands()
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
       self.run_command(cmd)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
       cmd_obj.run()
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build.py", line 112, in run
       self.run_command(cmd_name)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
       self.distribution.run_command(command)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
       cmd_obj.run()
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 279, in run
       self.build_extensions()
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 405, in build_extensions
       self.build_extension(ext)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 442, in build_extension
       sources = self.swig_sources(sources, ext)
   TypeError: swig_sources() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
   
After googling around I tried this:


   --- setup.py-old	2005-10-05 18:34:20.486133727 -0500
   +++ setup.py	2005-10-05 18:34:44.281584035 -0500
   @@ -68,21 +68,21 @@
    
      def before_swig_sources(self, sources):
          new_sources = [ ]
          for source in sources:
              if source == 'mk-constants.py':
                  self.make_file( (source,), 'constants.c', execfile, (source,) )
              else:
                  new_sources.append(source)
          return new_sources
        
   -  def swig_sources(self, sources):
   +  def swig_sources(self, sources, extension=None):
      
          """Walk the list of source files in 'sources', looking for SWIG
          interface (.i) files.  Run SWIG on all that are found, and
          return a modified 'sources' list with SWIG source files replaced
          by the generated C (or C++) files.
          """
    
          sources = self.before_swig_sources(sources)
      
          new_sources = []


I've never used SWIG, so I don't have any idea what's going on,
but it got a little bit further:

   $ python setup.py build
   /usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py:222: UserWarning: 'licence' distribution option is deprecated; use 'license' warnings.warn(msg)
   running build
   running build_ext
   building '_pcapmodule' extension
   generating constants.c from mk-constants.py
   swig -python -shadow -ISWIG -o pcap.c pcap.i
   pcap.i:23: Error: Unable to find 'doc.i'
   error: command 'swig' failed with exit status 1

And the files I end up with are:

   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante  5336 Oct  5 18:36 constants.c
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante   395 Apr 23  2002 COPYING
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante  1100 Apr 28  2004 error.c
   drwxr-xr-x  2 grante grante  4096 Jul  3 18:32 examples/
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante   958 Apr 28  2004 exception.c
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante   118 Jul  3 18:17 MANIFEST.in
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante  2068 Jun  7  2004 mk-constants.py
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante 54542 Jul  3 18:11 pcap.c
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante  4671 Jul 10  2004 pcap.i
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante 14929 Jul  9  2004 pcap_interface.c
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante  6011 Jul  3 18:11 pcap.py
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante   346 Jul  3 18:32 PKG-INFO
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante  2379 Dec  3  2004 pypcap.h
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante  1744 Jul  3 18:29 README
   -rw-r--r--  1 grante grante   100 Jun 14  2002 setup.cfg
   -rwxr-xr-x  1 grante grante  6374 Oct  5 18:34 setup.py*
   -rwxr-xr-x  1 grante grante  6358 Oct  5 18:34 setup.py-old*

   
Anybody have a clue to spare?

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