Re: GNUstep Startup 0.18.4 libffi/libffcall building issue on FC8

[Adam Fedor]

I think there's a bug in the InstallGNUstep script that doesn't allow  
you to force the libffi library if the ffcall is also installed. I can  
fix that and put a new version out soon.  Until then, you would  
probably need to uninstall ffcall or somehow hide the callback.h  
header file so it can't be found, then it will default to libffi.


On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Tavs wrote:

> I've installed libffi 3.01 to build the package in the subject, but
> 'InstallGNUStep' prints this:
>
> [InstallGNUStep output]
>
> W109 Warning
> For security reasons, your make program will not pass LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> along. This might not cause any problems, but if you do encounter any
> errors installing GNUstep, you may need to start again and use
> 'sudo ./InstallGNUstep' or 'su root; ./InstallGNUstep'.
> When installing other applications, you also may need to install
> as root, or use 'sudo make LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH install'.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> E273 Error
> You have the ffcall library but it does not work properly. Probably
> because you systems's security prohibits parts of ffcall from working.
> We recommend you install libffi instead. See the README for more help.
>
>                                                                 -----
> ------
> the configure script output regarding FFI libs is
>
> [./configure FFI-related output]
> checking ffi.h usability... yes
> checking ffi.h presence... yes
> checking for ffi.h... yes
> checking callback.h usability... yes
> checking callback.h presence... yes
> checking for callback.h... yes
> checking "for forwarding callback in runtime"... yes
> checking "FFI library usage"... ffcall
> checking if ffcall trampolines work... no
> none
>                                                      -----  ----
> So, what shoud I do?
>
> PS: I symbolically linked the libffi headers (ffi.h and such) from
> /usr/lib/libffi-3.0.1/include/ to /usr/include/ to let the configure  
> script
> to find them
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