Re: GNUstep build problem

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

> > Not sure whether this will help you, but your problems seem all to 
> > come
> > from the ffcallback library, why not switch over to use ffi
> > (http://sourceware.org/libffi/), which is better supported on most
> > platforms anyway?
>
> I tried that.
>
>         gunzip libffi-3.0.9.tar.gz
>         tar xvf libffi-3.0.9.tar
>         cd libffi-3.0.9
>         ./configure
>         make
>         make install
>
> "make" succeeded but "make install" gave me
>
>         make install
>
> Making install in include
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> test -z "/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include" || .././install-sh -c -d 
> "/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include"
>  ./install-sh -c -m 644 ffi.h ffitarget.h 
> '/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> /bin/bash: line 7: ./install-sh: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [install-nodist_includesHEADERS] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.9/include'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

OK, I tried 3.0.8 and that had the install-sh at least but so it seems 
in the wrong directory. I therefore did

        ln -s install-sh ./include/install-sh

Now I get a different error message:

-bash-3.00# make install messages=yes
Making install in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.8/include'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.8/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.8/include" || .././install-sh -c -d 
"/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.8/include"
 ./install-sh -c -m 644 'ffi.h' 
'/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.8/include/ffi.h'
/bin/bash: line 4: ./install-sh: Number of symbolic links encountered 
during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS
 ./install-sh -c -m 644 'ffitarget.h' 
'/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.8/include/ffitarget.h'
/bin/bash: line 4: ./install-sh: Number of symbolic links encountered 
during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS
make[2]: *** [install-nodist_includesHEADERS] Error 126
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.8/include'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.8/include'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

OK, then we try "cp install-sh  ./include/install-sh"

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.8/man'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man3" || .././install-sh -c -d 
"/usr/local/share/man/man3"
 ./install-sh -c -m 644 './ffi.3' '/usr/local/share/man/man3/ffi.3'
/bin/bash: line 19: ./install-sh: No such file or directory
 ./install-sh -c -m 644 './ffi_call.3' 
'/usr/local/share/man/man3/ffi_call.3'
/bin/bash: line 19: ./install-sh: No such file or directory
 ./install-sh -c -m 644 './ffi_prep_cif.3' 
'/usr/local/share/man/man3/ffi_prep_cif.3'
/bin/bash: line 19: ./install-sh: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install-man3] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.8/man'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/libffi-3.0.8/man'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Uaghh! libffi is obviously not compatible with Solaris! :-(  Back to 
ffcall ...

        tar xvf ffcall-1.8d.tar
        cd ffcall-1.8d
        ./configure
        make
        make install
        cd ..

and back to base. I put the output of the base build into

        http://www.smartsoft.de/EAR/base_build.output.txt

If anyone cares to have a look on that. Thanks a lot,

   Andreas