[Distutils] Swig build_py ran before build_ext

[Jari Pennanen]

Here is feature request: http://bugs.python.org/issue7562

2009/12/22 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jari Pennanen <jari.pennanen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, if that is so, I will paste my workaround for the sake of
>> completeness if other people come here to wonder:
>>
>>   #!/usr/bin/env python
>>   from distutils.core import setup, Extension
>>   from distutils.command.build_py import build_py
>>
>>   dist = setup(...)
>>
>>   # Rerun the build_py to ensure that swig generated py files are also copied
>>   build_py = build_py(dist)
>>   build_py.ensure_finalized()
>>   build_py.run()
>>
>> Btw, this could be mentioned in
>> http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html since SWIG is rather
>> common tool... it took me a notable time to figure this out.
>
> Having an option to define explicitely a custom order for the
> subcommands for the build command in setup.py sounds like a feature we
> could add.
>
> Please add an issue in bugs.python.org, I'll add Marc-André in cc.
> there and we can investigate in this,
>
> Regards
> Tarek
>



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