On 04/28/2012 05:09 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > There is a ticket that suggests adding swig to the book. Right now it is > referenced in pdl, subversion, and graphviz. I took a look at it and on the > surface it is pretty simple: CMMI. Just about any BLFS user should be able to > easily find, download, build, and install it without problems. > > The issue is dependencies. There are probably about 20 optional dependencies > for different languages such as tcl, python2, python3, octave, java, apache > ant, > guile, ruby, php, ocaml, pike, lua, go, and lisp. There are others that I > have > never heard of before. Actually, I've not heard of octave before and some of > the others here I only faintly recognize. > > This really begs the question, "Why not language ? in the book". > > So what do you think? Should we add swig? If yes, should we add some or all > of > the languages that are referenced? > > -- Bruce
Swig does not require anything to build than the LFS. Optional dependencies are only there for testing swig (ie the perl, python or ruby backend) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
