[Swift-user] OS X dependencies [Resolved]

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Apr 15 18:59:06 CDT 2012


On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 18:55 -0500, Gustav Larsson wrote:
> Thank you Mihael! When arranging the bash -x output file, I happened
> to spot the error and fixed it.
> 
> So in the output, I noticed SWIFT_HOME, which I had completely
> forgotten that I had ever set. I tried removing it from my .bashrc and
> swift ran without a hitch. On closer inspection, I had set my
> SWIFT_HOME to cog/modules/swift instead of
> cog/modules/swift/dist/swift-svn.
> 
> The bin/swift bash file checks for the required jar files when it
> tries to automatically set SWIFT_HOME. It might be worth doing this
> when the user has specified the SWIFT_HOME manually as well. This way
> this problem can be avoided. I would be happy to implement this change
> by the way.

SWIFT_HOME was added in order to allow a mechanism to override the
automatic detection. Perhaps the solution would be to print a warning
when SWIFT_HOME is already set.




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