[New-bugs-announce] [issue2624] swig support in distutils should use the build and temp dirs

[Kjell Braden]

New submission from Kjell Braden <fnord at pentabarf.de>:

Distutils should tell swig to create it's C wrapper file into the
temporary directory (eg. build/temp.linux-i686-2.5) and to write the
language specific files to the library directory (eg.
build/lib.linux-i686-2.5).

Rationale:
Without the language specific files, python swig extensions won't be
able to run, so they should definetly be distributed by distutils.
The wrapper files are build by-products and should therefore be in the
temporary directory, so they get cleaned up on "setup.py clean".

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components: Demos and Tools
messages: 65399
nosy: afflux
severity: normal
status: open
title: swig support in distutils should use the build and temp dirs
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5

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