[Gambas-user] Installing 2.4.1 on Fedora 7

[Scott Castaline]

Robert Rowe wrote:
> 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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I tried looking earlier but only found 1.0.19 and now 2.4.1 is there. 
Did they just add it today?