[lldb-dev] Minimum required swig version?

[Davidino Italiano via lldb-dev]

> On Apr 16, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Ted Woodward via lldb-dev <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> http://lldb.llvm.org/resources/build.html <http://lldb.llvm.org/resources/build.html> Says we need swig 2 or later:
> If you want to run the test suite, you’ll need to build LLDB with Python scripting support.
> 
> ·         Python <http://www.python.org/>
> ·         SWIG <http://swig.org/> 2 or later.
>  
> I don’t think this is correct anymore.
>  
> test/API/python_api/sbenvironment/TestSBEnvironment.py has this line:
>         env.Set("FOO", "bar", overwrite=True)
>  
> lldb built with swig 2.0.11 fails this test with the error:
>     env.Set("FOO", "bar", overwrite=True)
> TypeError: Set() got an unexpected keyword argument 'overwrite'
>  
> It works when lldb is built with swig 3.0.8.
>  

Yes, we bumped the swig requirements.
Swig-2, among others, don’t support python 3 correctly.

Feel free to submit a patch.

—
D
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