Thomas Heller ION-TOF GmbH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Heller" thomas.heller@ion-tof.com To: distutils-sig@python.org Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [Distutils] Duelling SWIG patches

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Greg Ward wrote: [snip]

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OS-agnostic, but is C-centric. Is it possible to tell from a SWIG .i file whether it is destined to be C or C++? I can't think of a good

way

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[snip]

and Michael wrote:

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I'm pretty sure that the only way to do this short of parsing the file

is

to

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run "swig" with no options and then (if it fails) run "swig -c++"

(enabling

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the C++ processing features). This seems more like something you'd want

to

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do during configuration then during the build.

Unfortunately swig does not fail in C-mode on an I-file which is destined for C++: The C-compiler will fail with syntax errors.

Thomas