Re: [Sablevm-user] 1.0.1 build problem

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

OK, obviously I missed it. (I don't expect build instructions to be in
anything other than the INSTALL file.)

--- Vladimir

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

  EMG> 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.

  EMG> Hmmm...

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


  EMG> Unfortunately, plain text doesn't have colors to put these in red.
  EMG> 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.

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

  >> Thanks for your help.

  EMG> You're welcome.

  EMG> Etienne

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