Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:53:33 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: has FreeBSD's libc been swigged? Message-ID: <6D39A2CB-A08E-4FBB-8EC3-23B943F4141C@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <4755A050.2080907@chuckr.org> References: <475469C2.6040603@chuckr.org> <D34851E3-8E78-4AC1-9B73-9D222EB9D2FE@khera.org> <4755A050.2080907@chuckr.org>
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On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: > 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.. Aha! Well, I've even used SWIG in the past with perl, but I didn't catch the connection. Thanks!
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