Visious hackery to solve a build-control problem related to our use of

distutils for the library modules built as shared objects.  A better solution
appears possible, but with the threat that the distutils becomes more
magical ("complex").
This closes SF bug #458343.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 183c45e..693d64c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
                                         self.get_ext_filename(fullname))
             os.remove(ext_filename)
 
+            # XXX -- This relies on a Vile HACK in
+            # distutils.command.build_ext.build_extension().  The
+            # _built_objects attribute is stored there strictly for
+            # use here.
+            for filename in self._built_objects:
+                os.remove(filename)
+
     def get_platform (self):
         # Get value of sys.platform
         platform = sys.platform