I am running python(x,y) which installs python and scipy and weave under the "program files" folder on windows. When using weave by having some inline C/C++ it uses a modified distutils to compile the inline source right? Unfortunately it doesn't seem to handle spaces in the path to either the output or to the temporary source files. I checked that this was the problem by copying the weave directory from site-packages and put it in another directory without spaces in the path - this worked fine. I then tried the exact g++ command from the stack trace at the command line and got the same error - so altered the command by adding quotes to the -c "path/to source/a.c" and the -o "objects". This worked at the command line so I set out changing it in weave... After spending a while debugging I found where quotes were added to the included libraries. After a lot more tracing found where the command line gets stringed together for the linker - in unixcompiler.py (surprising as I am under windows!) So I changed it to quote the source and the output objects and now it goes fine. What I changed was: In distutils.cygwinccompiler __revision__ = "$Id: cygwinccompiler.py 37828 2004-11-10 22:23:15Z loewis $":

def _compile(self, obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts): if ext == '.rc' or ext == '.res': # gcc needs '.res' and '.rc' compiled to object files !!! try: self.spawn(["windres", "-i", src, "-o", obj]) except DistutilsExecError, msg: raise CompileError, msg else: # for other files use the C-compiler try: lis = ['"' + src + '"', '-o', '"' + obj + '"'] cmd = self.compiler_so + cc_args + lis + extra_postargs self.spawn(cmd) except DistutilsExecError, msg: raise CompileError, msg

In distutils.unixccompiler __revision__ = "$Id: unixccompiler.py 54954 2007-04-25 06:42:41Z neal.norwitz $":

def link(self, target_desc, objects, output_filename, output_dir=None, libraries=None, library_dirs=None, runtime_library_dirs=None, export_symbols=None, debug=0, extra_preargs=None, extra_postargs=None, build_temp=None, target_lang=None): objects, output_dir = self._fix_object_args(objects, output_dir) libraries, library_dirs, runtime_library_dirs = \ self._fix_lib_args(libraries, library_dirs, runtime_library_dirs)

lib_opts = gen_lib_options(self, library_dirs, runtime_library_dirs, libraries) if type(output_dir) not in (StringType, NoneType): raise TypeError, "'output_dir' must be a string or None" if output_dir is not None: output_filename = os.path.join(output_dir, output_filename)

if self._need_link(objects, output_filename): objects = ['"' + o + '"' for o in objects] self.objects = ['"' + o + '"' for o in self.objects] ld_args = (objects + self.objects + lib_opts + ['-o', '"' + output_filename + '"']) if debug: ld_args[:0] = ['-g'] if extra_preargs: ld_args[:0] = extra_preargs

I don't know if that would still work on gnu/linux systems tho... Brian Thorne