No interest?
On 10/03/12 06:34, Stuart Cassoff wrote:
> On 09/08/12 19:58, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:01:37AM +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 06:28:12PM -0400, Stuart Cassoff wrote:
>>>> Now that you're in there, why not bring swig up to the latest?
>>>>
>>>> I posted a diff for a swig-wip a while back and looking at it now,
>>>> it doesn't seem too hard to upgrade. I do remember being confused
>>>> about boost and that maybe swig will find and use things if
>>>> installed, even if --without-things is used.
>>>
>>> I guessed that exists a good reason for the outdated port, so I only
>>> added the line with the option.
>>>
>>> I've been reading the changes of the last four years and working in
>>> the update this afternoon. The update isn't so easy, 68 packages
>>> depends of swig and I've seen at least 4 patches related to swig.
>>>
>>> Also I'm explicitely disabling the most of the languages (except the
>>> enabled in 1.3.6). I don't like the magic of "configure" for this
>>> package. If someone wants enable some language, he or she needs add
>>> the necessary stuff to the Makefile (modules, *_depends, etc). I may
>>> be wrong, but I think that dpb will generate different packages with
>>> each bulk build if we rely on the magic of "configure", eg: if dpb is
>>> compiling swig and packageY (that depends of languageZ) at the same
>>> time, swig will enable the support for languageZ because the package
>>> is installed in the build machine.
>>>
>>> I can't do a bulk build for to test the packages that depends of swig,
>>> but I'll review the makefiles for to see the languages necessary. I'll
>>> send you the patch the next week :)
>>
>> I was a bit wrong. The dependencies are only necessary for the tests and
>> examples, not for compile the package or to use this from other
>> languages.
>>
>> Don't blame me, I haven't used swig before of today :)
>>
>
> Latest diff, based on your work and mine.
> Swig now seems to need boost. Objections/Suggestions?
> Some tests fail because of '__guard_local'.
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/gcc/gcc/targhooks.c rev 1.3
> I have no idea what to do about that.
> Tested on amd64 and with a Tcl extension that wraps OpenGL (a big wrap).
> Not tested in a bulk or with other extensions.
>
> Stu
