Hi, I am trying to write a setup.py to create a source distribution for a wrapped library. The trick is that I need to build an intermediate library and the sdist command doesn't seem to like it. Here is the setup.py that I wrote. ========================================================================================= import os, sys, string from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_inc from distutils.core import setup, Extension # key is python version : value is the correspondent python directory name versionPath = {'2.0':'python2.0', '1.5.2':'python1.5', '2.1':'python2.1'}

# Where the source file for the amber library are. libamberSrcs = ['./src/binpos.c', './src/conjgrad.c', './src/memutil.c', './src/prm.c', './src/sff.c', './src/rand2.c']

# Here could be replace by sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix. # That will be for the distribution purpose.

version = string.split(sys.version)[0]

depInclude = sys.exec_prefix + '/include/%s/'%versionPath[version] numInclude = sys.prefix+'/include/%s/Numeric/'%versionPath[version] shareInclude = sys.prefix+'/include/%s/'%versionPath[version]

setup( name = 'amber', version = '94', description = 'Simple Force Field (SFF) package from Amber', author = "Tom Mackle, David Case", packages = [''], libraries = [('libamber', {'sources':libamberSrcs, 'include_dirs':['./src/',depInclude, numInclude, shareInclude ], 'macros':[]}, ),], ext_modules = [Extension('sffCmodule', ['sffCmodule.c',], include_dirs = ['./src/',depInclude,

numInclude,shareInclude,], libraries=['libamber']) ])

========================================================================================================================= python2.0 setup.py sdist gives me the following error message:

Traceback (innermost last): File "setup.py", line 44, in ? libraries=['libamber']) File "/tsri/python/share/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 138, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/tsri/python/share/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/dist.py", line 829, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/tsri/python/share/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/dist.py", line 849, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/tsri/python/share/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 143, in run self.get_file_list() File "/tsri/python/share/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 242, in get_file_list self.add_defaults() File "/tsri/python/share/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 319, in add_defaults self.filelist.extend(build_clib.get_source_files()) File "/tsri/python/share/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError, attr AttributeError: get_source_files

I can very successfully run the following command: python2.0 setup.py bdist python2.0 setup.py build In the last case I have a working package that I can import from a python interpreter.

I am pretty sure that the sdist command doesn't work because the intermediate library has not benn build yet when trying to do the tar ball. Did I make a mistake in the setup.py? if not is there a way around that problem?

Thanks for any suggestions ! Sophie