compilation error for pymoose

[subhacom]

When ‘make pymoose’ is run, the compilation fails with:

g++ -g -DDO_UNIT_TESTS -fPIC -c moose_wrap.cxx -o moose_wrap.o -I/usr/local/include/python2.5 -I..
moose_wrap.cxx: In function ‘int SWIG_Python_ConvertFunctionPtr(PyObject*, void**, swig_type_info*)’:
moose_wrap.cxx:2052: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’
moose_wrap.cxx: In function ‘void SWIG_Python_FixMethods(PyMethodDef*, swig_const_info*, swig_type_info**, swig_type_info**)’:
moose_wrap.cxx:64849: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’
make¹: * [moose_wrap.o] Error 1

Reported by: subhacom

[subhacom]

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This is a known problem with swig. The generated wrapper code (moose_wrap.cxx) should be edited to make the left-side of the corresponding lines ‘const char *’ instead of ‘char *’. Also, the same change from ‘char *’ to ‘const char *’ needs to be done four lines down the last error reported (line# 64853).

another attempt to make will result in a proper compilation. Swig svn version has been reported to fix this problem.

Original comment by: subhacom

[subhacom]

- status: open —> closed-wont-fix

Original comment by: subhacom