Martin von Loewis loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de writes:

It's about this hard, in fact:

Index: setup.py

RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/setup.py,v retrieving revision 1.82 diff -c -r1.82 setup.py *** setup.py 16 Feb 2002 18:23:29 -0000 1.82 --- setup.py 1 Mar 2002 13:35:04 -0000

* 176,188 ** except ImportError, why:

          if 1:

! self.announce('*** WARNING: removing "%s" since importing it' ' failed: %s' % (ext.name, why)) assert not self.inplace ! fullname = self.get_ext_fullname(ext.name) ! ext_filename = os.path.join(self.build_lib, ! self.get_ext_filename(fullname)) ! os.remove(ext_filename)

              # XXX -- This relies on a Vile HACK in
              # distutils.command.build_ext.build_extension().  The

--- 176,187 ---- except ImportError, why:

          if 1:

! self.announce('*** WARNING: renaming "%s" since importing it' ' failed: %s' % (ext.name, why)) assert not self.inplace ! basename, tail = os.path.splitext(ext_filename) ! newname = basename + "_failed" + tail ! os.rename(ext_filename, newname)

              # XXX -- This relies on a Vile HACK in
              # distutils.command.build_ext.build_extension().  The

One little point (or I'd have checked it in already): should we make efforts to not install the _failed.so turds?

Cheers, M.

-- C is not clean -- the language has _many_ gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are _simple_ in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp