On 29/06/2015 22:00, Grant Edwards wrote: > After futzing around for a while installing and re-installing > different versions of libftdi trying to get python support installed, > I finally noticed that building libftdi python support requires swig. > I didn't have swig installed and the ebuild apparently doesn't have it > as a dependency. > > Is the requirement to have swig installed when requesting python > support for certain libraries something you're "just supposed to > know", or should it be a dependency in the libftdi ebuild? >
The latter, and it's a bug that should be reported. It happens often, mostly due to dev oversight (he already has the dep installed so nothing gets triggered). -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
