[Gambas-user] Installing 2.4.1 on Fedora 7

[Robert Rowe]

No idea. I just remembered seeing Fedora packages on the download page. 
The package maintainers release new packages quite regularly. :)

Robert Rowe

Scott Castaline wrote:
> Robert Rowe wrote:
>   
>> I think that packages exist for Fedora. Have you tried using yum?
>>
>> Robert Rowe
>>
>> Scott Castaline wrote:
>>   
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>>> 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?
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