Re: Sable VM on Red Hat?

W liście z pią, 23-07-2004, godz. 12:15, Florian BOURGIER pisze: 
> Hello, I am on Red Hat 8.0. I have all the package installed but the rpm of 
> sable is not installing.
> I tried sablevm-classpath but it tells me that it needs sablevm. When i tried 
> sablevm, it tells me :
> devel(libm) is needed by sablevm
> devel(libltdl) is needed by sablevm
> devel(libdl) is needed by sablevm
> but i have all those things.

What RPM did you try to install?  The Mandrake one?  I am by no means
RH/Mdk expert but I suspect the rpm might not be fully compatible.

OTOH - in the old times I used to use RH (6.2) it was common that you
had to use --force -like switch to make packages installed.

Maybe somebody more experienced with RH/Mdk could help? (Cc:ing
sablevm-user too, as it's more user-like question)

> Then I downloaded the source code and tried to compile. But it failed during 
> configure because libffi is missing (checking for ffi-prep-cig in lffi ...no)
> 
> at first, libffi and libtools were not there but i installed them with rpm 
> (version 3.3.3-1 for lffi and 1.3.5- for libtool).
> What is wrong ?

Are you sure you installed libffi along with libffi*-dev?  You
absolutely need -dev version of all used libraries installed if you want
to compile any program from source.

For ex.
$ ls /usr/include/ffi*
/usr/include/fficonfig.h  /usr/include/ffi.h  /usr/include/ffi_mips.h

If you have header files or libraries installed in a non-standard
location you might need to set LDFLAGS, CFLAGS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH as
described in http://sablevm.org/wiki/LibFFI

If it doesn't help, it would be good if you showed what exactly are
error messages you see (last few lines of the output).

Hope this helps

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski

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