[Ns-bugs] [Bug 297] Python Binding Compilation error with Cygwin

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http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297





------- Comment #4 from gjcarneiro at gmail.com  2008-09-06 09:32 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't think that this bug is fixable. I would like to suggest that we disable
> python bindings on cygwin unless the user installs gccxml.

Python bindings are disabled now on cygwin.

Should we really enable Python bindings if (py)gccxml are installed?  They
would be arbitrary versions, and in my experience things might easily go wrong
if the wrong versions are used.  For instance, pygccxml svn trunk works works
well with gccxml cvs head, but pygccxml 0.9.5 doesn't work well with gccxml
head, only with gccxml cvs from around the date 2008-04-20, neither does
pygccxml trunk work well gccxml cvs from 2008-04-20, only with HEAD.

At least for NS-3.2 I see no better solution than this: when on CygWin disable
python bindings with a warning suggesting the use of MingW in order to get
Python bindings on Win32.  Anything else sounds too complicated and error prone
to work, especially in such a short time frame.


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