[Gambas-user] Installing 2.4.1 on Fedora 7

Robert Rowe robert.c.rowe at ...626...
Tue Apr 1 03:38:07 CEST 2008


I think that packages exist for Fedora. Have you tried using yum?

Robert Rowe

Scott Castaline wrote:
> 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?
>
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