Re: GnuCash trunk now uses SWIG
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:40:52AM -0400, David Reiser wrote: On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:17 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: There is no compilation ... Just a path. I suppose we could add a --with-swig-path switch, but why not just set $PATH accordingly? Um. Because I wasn't paying close enough attention? While I'm displaying my ignorance, how is it I keep the $PATH modification local to the build? I keep my gnucash svn builds out of my normal path so I have fewer conflicts in my attempts at making fink versions work. I tend to lose track of environment changes that work in one instance but interfere in another. I did build swig 1.3.29 in /opt last weekend, but I haven't built anything with it. Fink's latest swig is 1.3.20. All the tool paths are set by ./configure. If you want to run with another tool version (e.g. swig or gcc), you can just tweak the PATH before running ./configure. For example, $ PATH=/opt/gcc-5/bin:/opt/swig-1.3.30/bin ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash After that, the path to the tool is used in all the Makefiles, without any environment changes. -chris ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash trunk now uses SWIG
Just a quick correction.. Chris Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ PATH=/opt/gcc-5/bin:/opt/swig-1.3.30/bin ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash You actually want: PATH=/opt/gcc-5/bin:/opt/swig-1.3.30/bin:$PATH ./configure ... -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
GnuCash trunk now uses SWIG
Hi, In case you missed recent list traffic, this is just to announce that, yes, GnuCash has switched from g-wrap to SWIG (http://swig.sf.net since http://www.swig.org is currently down.) SWIG is the program that generates wrappers for C functions that can be called from guile. The conversion was merged into trunk a few days ago, on the 15th. So, what does this mean for those of you following trunk? Well, for one, you should be on the look-out for bugs, as always. There have already been a couple wrapper-related bugs squashed. A typical wrapper-related bug would be an unbound-variable error while exercising some functionality that's implemented in guile. Chiefly, that's reports, and import-export, and import-export is especially under-tested. (But any bugs are possible.) If you're compiling trunk, you're going to need to install swig = 1.3.28. Makefile rules are enabled that will generate the needed wrappers from the .i interface files. However, they won't be removed by make clean. If you need to remove them for some reason, you'll need the more drastic make maintainer-clean. It's also possible that left-over g-wrap cruft in your working directory may interfere with the build process somehow. Anything g-wrap can safely be deleted. Also, you may get some errors when reloading reports that were saved with pre-swig versions. Reopening those reports should work. Early heads up: there are currently some bug fixes in swig's cvs for bugs that we're working around now. When those fixes appear in a released version, I hope to depend on them relatively quickly, (maybe 1 month after release?) Please speak up if this is problematic. BTW, swig is a _breeze_ to install from source, and there's no library to link to at all. (./configure make make install) Note to packagers: Don't worry, this is all good news for you. SWIG is only a build-time dependency for people building from trunk. There is no new runtime dependency and no new build-time dependency for building from tarball (whenever a 2.2 is eventually released.) And... all the g-wrap dependencies are gone. Note to (potential) developers: Hey, if somebody wants to push a little more reporting infrastructure (options, basically) from guile into C, we could conceivably write reports in some other scripting language. As a perk, you'd get to pick the language! :-) Have fun! -chris ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash trunk now uses SWIG
can we have a --with-swig-prefix switch? Please? On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Chris Shoemaker wrote: Hi, In case you missed recent list traffic, this is just to announce that, yes, GnuCash has switched from g-wrap to SWIG ... Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash trunk now uses SWIG
There is no compilation ... Just a path. I suppose we could add a --with-swig-path switch, but why not just set $PATH accordingly? -derek Quoting David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: can we have a --with-swig-prefix switch? Please? On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Chris Shoemaker wrote: Hi, In case you missed recent list traffic, this is just to announce that, yes, GnuCash has switched from g-wrap to SWIG ... Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash trunk now uses SWIG
On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:17 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: There is no compilation ... Just a path. I suppose we could add a --with-swig-path switch, but why not just set $PATH accordingly? Um. Because I wasn't paying close enough attention? While I'm displaying my ignorance, how is it I keep the $PATH modification local to the build? I keep my gnucash svn builds out of my normal path so I have fewer conflicts in my attempts at making fink versions work. I tend to lose track of environment changes that work in one instance but interfere in another. I did build swig 1.3.29 in /opt last weekend, but I haven't built anything with it. Fink's latest swig is 1.3.20. -derek Quoting David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: can we have a --with-swig-prefix switch? Please? On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Chris Shoemaker wrote: Hi, In case you missed recent list traffic, this is just to announce that, yes, GnuCash has switched from g-wrap to SWIG ... Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
