From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 02:02:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6EA16A422 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq3.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq3.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5425643D45 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:02:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.130.190] (port=60409 helo=smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq3.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FDXiY-0003r1-Rs; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:02:30 +0100 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:53667 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FDXiN-0003gF-VJ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:02:19 +0100 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:02:11 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <440253DB.6030003@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: <440253DB.6030003@eastlink.ca> X-Face: :N, f2_*44g[tRY8Y-gL2zi`G|<6SpFjTeHt|V5LO6Yl2E7yAfEh{E6-8pqxUFX"l)=?utf-8?q?Nm8y=7E=0A=09IWJSAWQ=7D+=3DpP=7CT=5D?=@sy1sz%h)*CW6gtbp]"fe@MjICtIUo.0, CH~{[R4PXSyL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602270202.12167.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: David Pratt Subject: Re: Building an older version/port of SWIG X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:02:43 -0000 On Monday 27 February 2006 01:20, David Pratt wrote: > Hi. I am trying to build an older version of SWIG that the current > version in ports. Current version on ports is 1.3.27 but I am needing to > install 1.3.24 due to a problem with 1.3.27 with other software I will > be compliling. It is possible to install an older port of swig like this > with ports collection? I am on freeBSD 4.10. > > I have just recently tried downloading SWIG-1.3.24 from the swig site > and compiling it on its own with > > ./configure > make > make check > make install > > but it stops ... > > Installing /usr/local/share/swig/1.3.24/allegrocl/typemaps.i > Installing /usr/local/share/swig/1.3.24/allegrocl/allegrocl.swg > Installing language specific files for std > *** Error code 1 > > Are there specific parameters I need for FreeBSD for this to install > successfully. I am wanting SWIG to wrap for python. > > I would be happier with a port for sure but would be happy to get this > to compile/install one way or the other. Try using the port but for the older version: Change the version in Makefile and run 'make makesum' to change the checksums (and download the tarball, or copy it to /usr/ports/distfiles before this, as you already have it). It may work. You'll be setting yourself up with a nasty upgrading path to begin with though. HTH, Dan