Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New version of swig

[Michael Dickens]

On Feb 1, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Philip Balister wrote:
> "SWIG-1.3.38 has been released. It contains an output directory
> regression fix and other minor bug fixes."
>
> I have a memory of someone having an issue with swig recently, was it
> with gnuradio?

Your memory is correct, and, yes, the issue was with how SWIG 1.3.37  
behaved w/r.t. GNU Radio: in 1.3.36, the default output directory for  
all created files was the same as that the argument to the "-o" output  
file specifier option.  In 1.3.37, the default output directory was  
changed for the .py output file to be the directory of the input .i  
file ... which creates an error when doing 'make distcheck' because  
the directory of the input .i file is not writable.  Adding in the  
flag "-outdir $(builddir)" fixes the issue all the way back to around  
SWIG version 1.3.20, and should be forwards API compatible as well.   
There is a GNU Radio branch which corrects the behavior to make it the  
same with 1.3.36 and 1.3.37 (by adding "-outdir $(builddir)") -- which  
is still in testing -- but 1.3.38 should have corrected this issue for  
those who are or will be using it. - MLD