scons: Check for known buggy version of SWIG (2.0.9)

SWIG version 2.0.9 uses fully qualified module names despite of the
importing module being in the same package as the imported
module. This has the unfortunate consequence of causing the following
error when importing m5.internal.event:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "src/python/importer.py", line 75, in load_module
    exec code in mod.__dict__
  File "src/python/m5/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
    import internal
  File "src/python/importer.py", line 75, in load_module
    exec code in mod.__dict__
  File "src/python/m5/internal/__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
    import event
  File "src/python/importer.py", line 75, in load_module
    exec code in mod.__dict__
  File "build/X86/python/swig/event.py", line 107, in <module>
    class Event(m5.internal.serialize.Serializable):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'internal'

When 'event' is loaded, it triggers 'serialize' to be loaded. However,
it seems like the dictionary of 'm5' isn't updated until after
__init__.py terminates, which means that 'event' never sees the
'internal' attribute on 'm5'. Older versions of SWIG didn't include
the fully qualified module name if the modules were in the same
package.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 4ca4ae56d..a5a598660 100755
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -713,6 +713,15 @@ if compareVersions(swig_version[2], min_swig_version) < 0:
     print '       Installed version:', swig_version[2]
     Exit(1)
 
+if swig_version[2] == "2.0.9":
+    print '\n' + termcap.Yellow + termcap.Bold + \
+        'Warning: SWIG version 2.0.9 sometimes generates broken code.\n' + \
+        termcap.Normal + \
+        'This problem only affects some platforms and some Python\n' + \
+        'versions. See the following SWIG bug report for details:\n' + \
+        'http://sourceforge.net/p/swig/bugs/1297/\n'
+
+
 # Set up SWIG flags & scanner
 swig_flags=Split('-c++ -python -modern -templatereduce $_CPPINCFLAGS')
 main.Append(SWIGFLAGS=swig_flags)