Re: Help Solicited

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:14:12PM +0530, Manish.Sood wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I need to install Sable 1.1.6 on AIX 5.2.
> 
> I have downloaded the souces sablevm-1.1.6.tar.gz and sablevm-classpath-1.1.6.tar.gz and expanded them. 
> 

Hi,

Release 1.1.7 has been out.  If you are starting from new, I suggest
that you start from most recent one.

> But when I try to build the SableVM, the configure complaints about the missing libffi. The output of the configure is attached for reference.
> 

You need to get libffi.  This is the most difficult to find/setup
usually.  If I remember well, it does support AIX which is good.

Its part of gcc.  But it is available at a few independent package on
the web.  I don't remember the URL.

> Kindly let me know where I can get the source/binaries for the required libraries and how should I build them (libffi, libpopt, libgtk, libart and libldl3).
> 

I'm not familiar with AIX, but it is usually easier to get them
pre-packaged for AIX.  In the worst case, you can get them from the
official websites.

If you search for them in the Debian package database:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

The page that describes them have a link to where the source comes from.
Good way to know where other systems take it.

> Also I need to know which version of jikes is required and how should it be put to use i.e. putting the path to jikes executable is enough??
> 

Need >= 1.19 I think.
Works fine with 1.21 and 1.22.  Just get most recent version.

Yes, in your PATH should be good enough.


> Also the should I use make or gmake to build SableVM?
> 
> I also need to copy the Makefile.in to makefile before issueing the make command (either make or gmake) BUT the make fails as it complaints 
> 
> 		makefile:15: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> where line 15 is @SET_MAKE@
> 

You should use GNU make, so gmake.


David

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