distutils question->when do install, says header (.h) file is an unknown file type!?!?!

[David M. Cooke]

At some point, Lukasz Pankowski <lupan at zamek.gda.pl> wrote:

> seberino at spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:
>
>> I have a program that has Python and C code.
>>                                                                                 
>> I added Extension stuff to setup.py and all .c and .h
>> files get into tarball fine.
>>
>> (I have something like Extension("foo", glob.glob("bar/*.[ch]") )
>>                                                                                 
>> When I try to INSTALL the package it says header (.h)
>> file is an unknown type.  How fix this???
>>                                                                                 
>> Chris
>
> Do not include your header files in Extension (their not supported
> there), if you want to distribute them with your extension, add them
> to setup call, as in
>
>     setup(..., headers=['bcsim/bcsim.h'])
>
> if you only need them to build your extension (for source
> distributions and rpms) include them in MANIFEST.in instead.

distutils now supports (as of 2.3) the depends= keyword in Extension,
which adds more make-like functionality: Extension("foo",
['bar/bar.c'], depends=['bar/bar.h']) will cause the foo module to be
rebuilt if bar/bar.h changes.

I think what the OP wants is for his .h files to be included in the
source distribution. setup(..., headers=[...]) won't do that; you'll
still have to add them to the MANIFEST.in.

When in doubt whether it will be packaged, add it to MANIFEST.in.

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