Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> writes:

I am tempted to think that this problem has always existed, but has=20 gone unnoticed until now.

It's definitely gotten worse recently.

Now that I know about the problem it clears up some strange behaviour=20 I've seen in the past. I would love to see this fixed, but I'm afraid I'm not the person to do=20=

it. Distutils never ceases to amaze me, and it's path-mangling tricks are beyond me.=20=

I'm pretty sure that if we somehow stuff "../Modules/regexmodule.c" (assuming we're building=20=

in a subdir of the main dir) into the list of module sources we'll get something like=20 build/tmp.blabla/../Modules/regexmodule.o for the object filename.

Does anyone else feel up to fixing this?

I'll have a look, but so far I'm only confusing myself. The first out-of-tree build I did today put one .o file in the wrong place (bsddbmodule.o, I think). Now all of them are ending up in the wrong place. Cheers, M. -- Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug. -- Erik Naggum on Algol-style "call-by-name"