Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 04:35:22 -0700 From: bgingery@gtcs.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: beazley@cs.utah.edu Subject: ports/2220: Submitted port of swig 1.0 Message-ID: <199612151135.EAA17766@serv.gtcs.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199612151140.DAA21235@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2220 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Submitted FreeBSD port of Swig 1.0 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 15 03:40:05 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bruce Gingery >Organization: Advanced Integrators, LC >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: I have multiple versions of TCL installed on this host but not X-Windows/Tk. Tested with tcl v7.6 (which I also took time to port, but have not yet communicated with jkh about it. I have NOT installed Python, Guile-iii iTcl, and have not done a ports install of perl4 (just using the perl4 included in the original CD-ROM binary install. My Perl5 is 5.001 from the v2.1.0 ports. I'm about to upgrade this host from 2.1.0 to 2.1.6. >Description: Ref: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG/swig.html SWIG is a literate programming tool, for integration of C/C++, Perl4, Perl5, Tcl/Tk (and iTcl), Python, Guile and itself, allowing single-file creation of sources, and extremely easy building of enhanced interpreter/compile'n'go binaries (tclsh, wish, Perl5 .so's, etc.). For some reason I've not yet determined, it seems to NOT do dyamic (.so) creation for tcl - but that may be because I've not yet tested that properly, and don't have Tk nor X- installed on this host. Simply stated, swig is a fast-production front-end make extender. Written by Dave Beazley <beazley@cs.utah.edu>, and provided with many examples, it seems to do a very good job in v1.0 (release). It doesn't require ALL of the languages, but will work with any or (presumably) all. Yacc/Bison is recommended but not required as a dependancy. The only author's presumption I've overridden in the port is to make HTML the default documentation generation form instead of ASCII. (LaTeX and NODOC are also options, which extend the potential to auto-doc'ing in just about any form generally used.) Beazley has tested on: SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris, Irix 5.3, Irix 6.1, HPUX, AIX 4.1, Linux, MkLinux, MachTen, and UNICOS, so it's high time we had it on every platform using the FreeBSD ports collection! >How-To-Repeat: (??) CONFUSION: share/ is described as platform independent files. lib/ is set for platform dependent binary linkables. I've adopted the libdata/ used in past versions of BSD386 derivatives for the non-binary, non-platform- independnt items as an install locale. It may be that this will not align with the team's definitions The configure does NOT pass the library information (other than ${PREFIX}) to the makefiles (e.g. ${datadir}) but rather, ${PREFIX}/lib is hardcoded, and I've not cor- rected this, but rather just patched it in the various makefiles. The validation "Errors" makefile patch is not this type, but rather corrects for $PWD not being in PATH. It would appear that a re-make of the port MAY be needed when Perl5 or Tcl is upgraded. I don't have a good answer for this. (and I've not tested with iTcl Python Guile) >Fix: I've marked this as an "Interactive" install port, because the configure file frankly does not pick the correct libtcl when multiple versions are installed, and it's easier (for now) to correct the makefile template, used by swig, than to script out a version determination. Also, I did NOT want to specify a required version of Tcl, (and iTcl?/Tk?) with new versions and patches coming out so often. Dave Beazley documents his testing with Tcl v7.3, and shows 7.5 in the release, but 7.6 is current (with 7.5 currently in the FreeBSD ports collection). Because it's marked as an interactive port (rather than batch) I've taken the liberty of putting some notes at the end of the install. These also point out the included "Examples" in the distribution. The only patches from the standard distribution are two Makefile.in patches, and one validation Makefile patch. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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