From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 18:47:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F205316A417 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:47:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAB013C4E5 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:47:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 17378 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2007 18:47:18 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Dec 2007 18:47:18 -0000 Message-ID: <4755A050.2080907@chuckr.org> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:45:36 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: <475469C2.6040603@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd ports Subject: Re: has FreeBSD's libc been swigged? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:47:19 -0000 Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> Need to do some python work, using a lot of FreeBSD's base libs, and I >> was wondering, if any ports have swigged the FreeBSD libs? I'll do it >> if I must, just trying to save me some work. >> > > Not understanding your use of the word "swigged", all I can say is that > the ports do not touch the system libraries except in the rare case of > things like openssl which have the _option_ to install on top of the > system ssl libraries. devel/swig is a well-known interface generator, which automates writing the interfaces, so that the scripting languages can make direct use of compiled languaes. My particular target is to get python to use FreeBSD llibraries, so your comment is amiss in this case, although you are correct in general.. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"