Re: Hugs98 Oct2002 release candidate available

Hi,

some questions/remarks/bugs

1. Why is ffi disabled by default (./configure --enable-ffi is needed)?

2. If you install without ffi, there will be some header files in
   $(hugsdir)/libraries/. If you install with ffi, they will be removed.
   See install_libraries_ffi target in src/MkInstal.in.

3. ffi and ffi libs will be built by a install* target and not by a
   "build" target. IMO, it's much nicer to build everything by the default
   and ffi "build" target and install only by the install* targets.

BTW, I am no auto{conf|make|...} crack, but on FreeBSD HAVE_LIMITS_H is
not defined, but limits.h has to be included for building ffihugs
without errors. I use something like
  s/#ifdef HAVE_LIMITS_H/#if defined(__FreeBSD__)/
for the FreeBSD port, but maybe there will be a better solution (a
config.h file for FreeBSD or something)

Regards,
         Olli
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