[Zope3-dev] Re: Core dump with z3

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 09:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > This happens to me every now and then.  It looks like the regular build
> > process does not always rebuild C modules and you need to perform a make
> > clean manually.
> 
> That's because the setup.py doesn't know all the dependencies of the C
> modules.  I think it only recompiles if the module's main .c file is
> changed; but that's not enough because most of the BTree code is
> actually in a template file that is included by the main .c files.
> 
> Hmm...  I think distutils now has a way to express generalized
> dependencies; maybe that should be used?  I'll investigate.

Python 2.3 distutils supports this feature and setup.py has the
necessary declarations to make them work.  Folks using Python 2.2 would
probably benefit from installing the 2.3 distutils in their
site-packages.

Jeremy