[Gambas-user] Installing 2.4.1 on Fedora 7

[Demosthenes Koptsis]

I installed libffi in /usr/local/lib in my *openSuse 10.2*
but i had to have a line for the path in */etc/ld.so.conf*
and run *ldconfig* after any lib installation.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Benoit Minisini <
gambas at ...1...> wrote:

> On mardi 1 avril 2008, 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?
> >
>
> libiconv and libintl are not mandatory. As for libffi, the problem is that
> I
> forgot to add /usr/local/lib/include as an include search path for libffi.
> I
> will fix that in the next release, but please install libffi in another
> place
> (/usr/lib) for example as workaround.
>
> But you should not have to compile libffi, you should have a binary
> package.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoit Minisini
>
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Γεια χαρα σε όλους!!!

Regards,

Demosthenes Koptsis