On 12/28/2010, Tully Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com> wrote: 
> I guess it's not a version problem.  Lucid has the same version of sed
>
> I guess you could also try compiling/configuring wxswig outside the ros
> environment.  It seems like the problem isn't with the ROS environment and
> if you confirm it as such the wxswig community might know more.
>

In my system, I have dev-lang/swig-1.3.40-r1, which compiles fine.
also dev-lang/swig-2.* does.
swig-1.3.29 was relesed on sourceforge on 2006-03-21.
so, I think, ros should update his own swig depedency.

how may I skip swig compilation and use my local version of swig instead?