Building -2.0.4: Configuration Error

[David Reiser]

On 14 Feb 2007, at 11:31:53 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting Mark Johnson <mrj001 at shaw.ca>:
>
>> I did some googling on libffi.  It seems to be included as part of  
>> gcc.
>> Is this relevant?
>
> No.  Unfortunately it is not relevant..
>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23718
>> This was reported against gcc 4.0.0, and you are most likely using
>> gcc 3.4.6, but it's possible your ffitarget.h is installed in the
>> wrong location.  Two guesses. You may need to add a "-Iwhateverdir"
>> to your CFLAGS.  You may need to pass some target/host/build info to
>> configure.
>
> Unlikely..  More likely (check the archives of the gnucash lists)
> you need some libffi development package installed.  Some  
> distributions
> have it packages separately.

It's also included in the g-wrap 1.9.6 tarball, isn't it? It is a  
very old version from before ffi got included in gcc, hence some  
problems with various platforms. And gcc isn't spending much time on  
compatibility with less-than-wonderfully-current distribs.

>
>> Mark
>
> -derek
> -- 
Dave
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