OpenSuSE 10.2 and swig-1.3.31 - a clean solution (was: ugly workaround: suse 10.2 has only SWIG 1.3.29)

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi,

sometimes I need a little longer ... ;-)

Am Dienstag, 12. August 2008 05:47:31 schrieb David Reiser:
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:
:
> > What I did with my OpenSuSE 10.2 was simply this: I manually compiled
> > and installed swig-1.3.31 from a tarball, with ./configure
> > --prefix=/usr. In effect, this blatantly ignores the package manager
> > and audaciously installs a newer swig on top of the package manager's
> > one. 

You can simply get swig-1.3.31 from the opensuse 10.3 repository and install 
with rpm.

> > However, starting from a clean checkout gnucash will now build 
> > perfectly fine. Using an old build directory doesn't work, though,
> > because of the mixup of old and new swig stuff.

That is, what I usual do, if gnucash doen't compile, but ...
>
> 'make maintainer-clean' has successfully removed prior swig-generated
> files for me when I change swig versions (without having to do a clean
> checkout).

... this trick I will test next time. Thanks.

>
> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net

Regards,
Frank