Provide fake_pyrex to make setuptools work with Cython

jey · Mar 9, 2010 · 018179c · 018179c
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diff --git a/fake_pyrex/Pyrex/Distutils/__init__.py b/fake_pyrex/Pyrex/Distutils/__init__.py
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+# work around broken setuptools monkey patching
diff --git a/fake_pyrex/Pyrex/Distutils/build_ext.py b/fake_pyrex/Pyrex/Distutils/build_ext.py
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+build_ext = "yes, it's there!"
diff --git a/fake_pyrex/Pyrex/__init__.py b/fake_pyrex/Pyrex/__init__.py
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+# work around broken setuptools monkey patching
diff --git a/fake_pyrex/README b/fake_pyrex/README
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+This directory is here to fool setuptools into building .pyx files
+even if Pyrex is not installed. See ../setup.py.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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 DOWNLOAD_URL        = "http://code.google.com/p/scikits-sparse/downloads/list"
 VERSION             = '0.1+dev'
 
+# Add our fake Pyrex at the end of the Python search path
+# in order to fool setuptools into allowing compilation of
+# pyx files to C files. Importing Cython.Distutils then
+# makes Cython the tool of choice for this rather than
+# (the possibly nonexisting) Pyrex.
+project_path = os.path.split(__file__)[0]
+sys.path.append(os.path.join(project_path, 'fake_pyrex'))
+
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages, Extension
 from Cython.Distutils import build_ext
 import numpy as np
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		This directory is here to fool setuptools into building .pyx files
		even if Pyrex is not installed. See ../setup.py.