[SciPy-dev] weave -- inline C/C++ in Python, an implementation

[Fernando Pérez]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, eric wrote:

> Hey Fernando,
> 
> The fixed width problem occurs for me too.  I haven't found the cause yet.
> I'll keep looking later tonight.

good

> 
> The problem with cerr was supposed to go away when I hard coded the
> inclusion of the stdc++ library
> in build_tools.py.  Hmmm.  Looks like I did this in a pretty hap-hazard way:
> 
>         if sys.platform[:-1] == 'linux':
>             libraries = kw.get('libraries',[])
>             kw['libraries'] = ['stdc++'] +  libraries
> 
> Looks like this is guaranteed to fail for most cases.  Does mandrake define
> sys.platform differently than
> RH?  Anyway, I've changed this to:

yes, this is Mandrake:

>>> sys.platform
'linux-i386'

Something like:
if sys.platform.lower().find('linux') > -1:
  ...

might be much more robust.

Or just force compilation with g++ (why don't you?)

> 
> I've uploaded new source files.  Please see if this fixes the problem.
> 
I'll let you know.

cheers,

f