Re: [Sablevm-user] 1.0.1 build problem

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:36:04PM -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm...

In the INSTALL file:
  ...
  SableVM specific instructions
  =============================
  
  Please find these in the README file.
  ...
  
In the README file:
  ...
  INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
  =========================
  
  First, you must make sure that the following libraries are installed
  on your system (along with their development header files):
   - libpopt
   - libffi
   - libltdl
  
  Note that the "sablevm-native-library" (which is a customized build of
  the GNU Classpath JNI native libraries) might have additional
  dependencies. Look at the documentation in its "classpath-docs"
  directory.
  
  You also need GCC (I've tested with version 3.1) and Jikes (tested
  with 1.15, 1.16 is known to be buggy at this point), as well as the
  usual GNU make tools.
  ...


Unfortunately, plain text doesn't have colors to put these in red.
Maybe I should write identical files in HTML eventually. ;-)

> 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.

I agree with the no "2 untarring" thing, but I have serious doubts
about the "cd" one.  Maybe I should provide the build scripts
separately, instead.

> Thanks for your help.

You're welcome.

Etienne

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