New gcc requires swig 1.3.33 for perl bindings

[warmerdam]

​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466785

Basically it seems we need to upgrade the packaging machine www.gdal.org/www.buildbot.org to have swig 1.3.33.

[warmerdam]

Actually, it's Mateusz who will need to upgrade the packaging machine -- reassigning. Ari, you might want to verify that SWIG 1.3.33 is fine.

[Ari Jolma]

I vaguely remember this bug, when I upgraded to perl 5.10 in Windows, it was easy to fix by upgrading swig. I have swig 1.3.33 in my main Linux machine (but perl is still 5.8.8) - it's been upgraded to that without any special attention. I had another issue with Perl 5.10, which I reported to Swig people: ​https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=101645&aid=1904537&group_id=1645 and the fix is now in 1.3.35 - it's a quite minor issue and I'm not sure if it shows up in tests.

[Mateusz Łoskot]

I would like to ask for final confirmation that I should proceed and upgrade SWIG from 1.3.31 to 1.3.33

[Ari Jolma]

I have no objections and am in favor of it.

[Mateusz Łoskot]

I've upgraded SWIG to latest 1.3.36 on the ​xblade14-2 machine.

[mloskot@xblade14-2 src]$ swig -version

SWIG Version 1.3.36

Compiled with g++ [i686-pc-linux-gnu]
Please see http://www.swig.org for reporting bugs and further information

[Markus Neteler]

Martin, will this SWIG update break the GRASS compilation cronjobs on xblade14-2?

Markus

PS: please remember that xblade14-2 is a multi-project machine: GDAL, GRASS, QGIS, ...

[martinl]

Replying to neteler:

Martin, will this SWIG update break the GRASS compilation cronjobs on xblade14-2?

no, it shouldn't break GRASS compilation, SWIG >= 1.3.31 should be OK (there was problem with the previous SWIG versions).

Martin

[Mateusz Łoskot]

Marcus, Martin,

Thanks for pointing the potential risk. Please, notify me in case of any troubles with new SWIG version.