distutils, extensions, and missing headers

[Robert Kern]

Gary Jefferson wrote:
> On Sep 20, 1:22 am, Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Use the "headers" keyword to setup() to list the header files you want installed.
> 
>   I've tried "headers=['header1.h', 'header2.h']" in setup() as well
> as in Extension(), and neither seem to get the files into the bdist or
> bdist_rpm tarball.  Am I doing it wrong?  I can't seem to find any
> examples that use this via google.

You might need an accurate relative path. I'm assuming that you don't actually
keep header1.h and header2.h in the top-level directory next to the setup.py.

-- 
Robert Kern

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