Some stuff I've learned about SWIG

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

From reading http://www.swig.org/Release/CHANGES I have found two
interesting pieces of information:

11/14/2007: wsfulton
[R] Package name and dll name is now the same as the SWIG module
name. It used to be the module name with _wrap as a
suffix. The package
and dll names can be modified using the -package and -dll
commandline
options.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

02/29/2008: wsfulton
[Perl] Fix #1904537 Swig causes a Perl warning "x used
only once" in Perl 5.10
reported by Ari Jolma

The first incompatible change is just a file naming issue, and will
probably require a few lines
of changed code in the Build script. It would have been nice for this
incompatible change to be
a bit more visible on the website, but oh well.

The second bugfix corrects the issue where SWIG generates lots of
"uninitialized value" warnings
that make the test output not so pretty.

Anybody want to

a) try to get Math::GSL to compile using swig 1.3.36 (or the latest
svn (I am trying the latest svn now))
b) add a cogent explanation to this in POD that looks nice in html in
the TODO file

Cheers,

the

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Jonathan Leto
jal...@gmail.com

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy again,

I just checked out the latest svn of SWIG (revision 10894) and
everything compiled and the tests passed on my machine.

There is still testing this on other platforms, but it looks like this
is a nonissue.

I love when bugs disappear.

Cheers,