[Python-Dev] extension module .o files wind up in the wrong place (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 03:25:46 -0500

If this involves VPATH, I think I might know what's happening -- something similar happened to me recently.

Have you by any chance previously done a non-VPATH build in the source tree? It seems that, when using a VPATH, any pathname referencing something in the build directory for which a corresponding file exists in the VPATH directory gets changed to refer to the VPATH directory. So you need to make sure there are only source files in the source tree before doing a build using a VPATH.

This is indeed a common pitfall (== I've wasted an hour debugging this once :-). Can someone add a note to README?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)