OK. From the horse's mouth, so to speak. Swig should be able to be
built and installed without any languages, and even if it finds and
tests languages, the core swig remains the same.
There was one dissenting comment from an ocaml user, but I it wasn't
an "it doesn't work" complaint.
I think we can go ahead and pull most of the dependencies on swig.
I should probably test the guile capabilities to be sure my last
problem was just an environment problem and not swig.
Dave
Begin forwarded message:
From: William S Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 17, 2008 5:17:38 PM EDT
To: David Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Swig-user] how modular is the support for the various
languages?
David Reiser wrote:
I know that swig can be built without any of the supported
languages installed. What happens if I install swig without any of
the languages present and then install some number of the
supported languages?
I tried building swig both with and without languages present and
then looked at the resulting install, but I couldn't tell for sure
that there weren't minor changes to the core files.
Whether or not any languages are detected or disabled/enabled during
configure time makes no difference to what gets installed. The
detection of the languages is entirely for testing.
My main interest here is a packaging issue that has arisen in fink
for OS X. If all the languages that both swig and fink support are
enabled for swig 1.3.35, then several packages in fink that
require swig end up dragging in octave (and having to compile
gcc43 for octave). It's pretty annoying to spend 6 hours compiling
a compiler to support a language one doesn't use just to get swig
support for a language that one does use. Granted, this problem is
as much fink's policy of "everything should build the same for
every user" as anything else. But it would be nice to know/learn
how to overlay languages on a base swig install without having to
modify the swig install itself.
So to sum up you don't need any languages installed in order to
build and install swig.
William
BTW, I just fixed your SF bug 2019156 about configure --without-
octave not working.
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