[Gambas-user] Installing 2.4.1 on Fedora 7

[Scott Castaline]

I have Fedora 7, (2.6.23.15-80.fc7) installed. I am trying to compile 
and install Gambas 2.4.1 and cannot seem to get any where. When I run 
./configure -C I get the following errors:

* Failed to find file libintl.so
configure: This library should be located inside the system C library
checking for optional external charset conversion library headers... 
/usr/local/include/
checking for optional external charset conversion library libraries... 
/usr/local/lib/
checking for foreign function interface component with pkg-config... no
configure: Cannnot find libffi support with pkg-config
checking for foreign function interface headers... no
* Failed to find file ffi.h
checking for foreign function interface libraries... /usr/local/lib/
configure: WARNING: *** foreign function interface is disabled
configure: error: libffi library and headers are required
configure: error: ./configure failed for main

I found the source code for libffi.so, libffi-3.0.4, dl'd ran 
./configure, make, make install, all as root. It still could not find it 
even though the header files are in /usr/local/lib/include and the other 
files are in /usr/local/lib. I was also getting a message about missing 
libiconv.so and after a long search I found libiconv-1.12 and did the 
same for that as libffi. The error for libiconv went away but the 
libintl and libffi were still there. I finally founf something about 
gettext. I checked through my pkgmgr and found that I had gettext but 
not gettext-devel, so installed that. I'm still getting the above.

Any ideas?