On Sun, 2011-06-05, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> SWIG is not required for building of SWIG-based bindings from release tarballs, which contain
> some SWIG-generated files. `configure` prints a warning, when a version of SWIG newer than
> hardcoded maximal version is detected. The maximal version very often becomes outdated (e.g.
> currently 2.0.4 is the newest available version) and for the long time there hasn't been any
> problem caused by new version of SWIG itself. I suggest to remove check for maximal version
> of SWIG. (`configure` from 1.6.x branch prints a warning when SWIG >=1.3.37 is detected.)
>
> Index: build/ac-macros/swig.m4
> ===================================================================
> --- build/ac-macros/swig.m4 (revision 1132477)
> +++ build/ac-macros/swig.m4 (working copy)
> @@ -92,15 +92,12 @@
> # packages/rpm/redhat-7.x/subversion.spec
> # packages/rpm/rhel-3/subversion.spec
> # packages/rpm/rhel-4/subversion.spec
> - if test -n "$SWIG_VERSION" &&
> - test "$SWIG_VERSION" -ge "103024" &&
> - test "$SWIG_VERSION" -le "200002"; then
> + if test -n "$SWIG_VERSION" && test "$SWIG_VERSION" -ge "103024"; then
> SWIG_SUITABLE=yes
> else
> SWIG_SUITABLE=no
> AC_MSG_WARN([Detected SWIG version $SWIG_VERSION_RAW])
> - AC_MSG_WARN([Subversion requires 1.3.24 or later, and is known to work])
> - AC_MSG_WARN([with versions up to 2.0.2])
> + AC_MSG_WARN([Subversion requires SWIG 1.3.24 or later])
> fi
> fi
>
> Index: subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL
> ===================================================================
> --- subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL (revision 1132477)
> +++ subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL (working copy)
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
>
>
> Step 1: Install a suitable version of SWIG (which is
> - currently swig version 1.3.24 - 2.0.2).
> + currently SWIG version 1.3.24 or later).
+1. Information about the latest known compatibilities can never be
kept up to date if is encoded within the Subversion distribution. This
information would be better conveyed on the web.
- Julian
Received on 2011-06-06 10:27:19 CEST