[TIP] Are extensions needed for coverage required?

[Chris Withers]

Hi Ned,

Thanks for the quick response!

(CC'ing Enthought support in case it's something to do with EPD 7.2-2)

On 01/07/2012 16:34, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> Chris: coverage.py works by setting a trace function with
> sys.settrace().  That function is invoked for every line of your
> program.  To reduce the burden, coverage.py has a trace function written
> in C.  If for whatever reason you can't compile that C extension,
> coverage.py will fall back to a Python implementation, which is what
> happened here to you.  Everything will continue to work, but it will be
> slower.

Okay, so sounds like I'd like the C extension, but the problem is more 
general, I've had the same error trying to compile some other C 
extensions on Mac OS X:

>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/unicodeobject.h:4,
>>
>>                  from
>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/Python.h:85,
>>
>>                  from coverage/tracer.c:3:
>> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/stdarg.h:4:25: error:
>> stdarg.h: No such file or directory

Anyone seen this and/or know how to fix it?

cheers,

Chris

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