Re: [Sablevm-user] 1.0.1 build problem

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

No, I do not have libffi installed on my system. There was no indication
that I saw either on the web site or in the INSTALL document of the
distribution that libffi was needed. 

Perhaps a note about this could be added to a README somewhere (or made
more visible if I missed it.) I've also noticed that the build script
requires `jikes'. That dependency should also be noted somewhere.

I've installed and built the libffi-1.20 version, and it appears that I
can build SableVM now.

I've noticed another problem with the build process:

The build script is created by untarring sablevm-1.0.1.tar.gz. But the
last step in that script is to untar sablevm-$VERSION.tar.gz. There is no
need to untar it twice, and there is no need to `cd' into the resulting
directory.

Thanks for your help.

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St.                                         vla...@ac...
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

"EMG" == Etienne M Gagnon <eti...@uq...> writes:

  EMG> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:23:39PM -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
  >> 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


  EMG> It seems you don't have libffi installed on your system.  There's
  EMG> surely some rpm for it (you need the -dev version with header files,
  EMG> if applicable).

  EMG> Here's a URL: sources.redhat.com/libffi/

  EMG> Check the README file for other potential dependency problems
  EMG> (specially with the native library).


  EMG> Etienne
  EMG> -- 
  EMG> Etienne M. Gagnon                    http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/
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