[ros-users] Ros install issue: /opt/ros/ros/3rdparty/wxswig/build/SWIG-1.3.29 No targets. Stop.

[Josh Faust]

>
> 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?


You can't unfortunately.  We only use swig to create wxPython bindings for
certain controls, and it requires a specific and patched version of swig.
 This problem will go away when we move to Qt.

Josh
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