Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Distcheck error on latest trunk

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:45:24PM -0500, Michael Dickens wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
>> Looks like we're going to need to change the SWIG detection mechanism 
>> in the build to conditionally define SWIGPYTHONARGS based on the 
>> detected version.  Do you want to take stab at that?
>
> GNU Radio right now requires SWIG 1.3.31 or newer, which should all work 
> correctly using "-outdir ." (it being redundant with the behavior of 
> those versions of SWIG).  1.3.37 also works correctly with this flag 
> (I've checked it).  Hence I would -much- prefer to just add this flag to 
> SWIGPYTHONARGS in Makefile.common, then change those Makefile.am's which 
> require SWIG to make use of SWIGPYTHONARGS.  It's a global (to GNU 
> Radio), backwards and forwards compatible (to SWIG), solution, and in the 
> whole scheme of things a really minimal change to GNU Radio.  Unless you 
> (or Eric or someone else) really objects, I'll create a branch with those 
> changes ASAP to get them into the 3.2 release (and thus have them be 
> compatible with MacPorts' installed SWIG).

This sounds good.  Thanks for sorting this out.

Eric