[Sablevm-user] 1.0.1 build problem

[Vladimir G. I. <vla...@ac...>]

I downloaded sablevm-1.0.1.tar.gz and unpacked it into /usr/local/src. I
then downloaded into /usr/local/src/sablevm-1.0.1 the libraries
sablevm-{class,native}-library-1.0.1.tar.gz.

When I execute 

   $ CC=gcc3 ./build

I get the following error message (after a lot of output, including some
compiles):

   checking for ffi_prep_cif in -lffi... no
   ***ERROR: libffi is missing
   make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
   make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

It appears that only the native library has been made because no
makefiles have been created except in and underneath the
./sablevm-native-library directory.

I am running Red Hat 7.3 with the latest released kernel (2.4.18-5smp).
The gcc I'm using is:

   $ gcc3 -v
   Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.1/specs
   Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --host=i386-redhat-linux --with-system-zlib
   Thread model: posix
   gcc version 3.1 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 3.1-1)

Any ideas? 

--- Vladimir

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