Re: Problem compiling sablevm-1.1.9 on Debian

David Bélanger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.vm.sablevm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:09:27AM -0500, Sebastien wrote:
> checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... 
> (cached) yes
> appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
> checking for ffi_prep_cif in -lffi... no
> ***ERROR: libffi is missing
> 
> But this librairy is in fact installed:
> 
> Passion% dpkg -l | grep libffi
> ii  libffi2        3.3.5-6        Foreign Function Interface library 
> runtime
> ii  libffi2-dev    3.3.5-6        Foreign Function Interface library 
> (developm
> Passion% locate libffi
> /usr/lib/libffi.a
> /usr/lib/libffi.la
> /usr/lib/libffi.so
> /usr/lib/libffi.so.2
> /usr/lib/libffi.so.2.0.0
> /usr/share/doc/kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.libffi
> /usr/share/doc/libffi2

You might want to check config.log for more info...

Some config tests are small C programs that gets compiled and if this
fails, it concludes test failed.  config.log helps finding the cause.

David

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