From 42df0fcb4bc92c844f1b2c3c27abc95ac1621b08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 15:14:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] generate pybindgen/version.py in waf configure, closes #45

---
 wscript | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 601ae92..133e02c 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ def configure(conf):
     conf.load('python')
     conf.check_python_version((2,3))
 
+    # this causes pybindgen/version.py to be generated by setuptools_scm
+    subprocess.run([conf.env["PYTHON"][0], "setup.py", "--help-commands"],
+                   stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+
     try:
         conf.load('compiler_c')
         conf.load('compiler_cxx')