From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: One config issue solved, only to trip over another. Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:43:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <440193.62331.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Mike Gran NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298919280 17293 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2011 18:54:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:54:40 +0000 (UTC) To: Bruce Korb , guile-devel Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 28 19:54:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu8Es-0005HJ-8g for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:54:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pu8Er-0001LE-75 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57300 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pu8Dx-0000xh-9G for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu83z-0002n1-OD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:43:46 -0500 Original-Received: from web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.168]:37476) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu83y-0002m3-TT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 64829 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Feb 2011 18:43:17 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1298918597; bh=l8le/CdzdZQ+QZpfiaMjZon1MCAAG71zwQfxp0HvMMs=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=QkWR+7F5Po2Kw7a976QMLjTMzVWhpGsyV3DhbM0gmxtxSBW11WsukL7ZoR2jZiGQ5nElBt5GvHI1p1iE7ajqtRUyznSCGWpy+cCkbZB82rihF3ZQsgUS88pT7Pj+Q7Dyngb19JFNRz0Kp6cvmvoKuhh5SyL03Dxh6S1oY+5p/R8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=TWlM+n05Upu0TqVmAAxsNArRmzYgv6WhJdO5r7+TXxL3cRDTHYT6t1uLDWb5IPD12TST7xsEnjaeTzPbkO1JLweoY8ipyeTOLbqgik2ApT1EAcxWh512257HL/KxrO0/fbUpaHMddZDfyD6WCsM/97KngNOf9lSWDjVg0i+NoDw=; X-YMail-OSG: SgZ8CAQVM1nUK36GV3ONM4KnoJ9KV9hjzumE.PTfZIX7mux 5fQ5eHpOoTq7MsfgGGXZRoo4bmAaEGxjPCFJxRo7Iuvml0oI55xuFF_E1wiM h3OPfGNt0ExPyDGO2JsjoA31azIM.oxLiM77X.7H_RjXiY1SOuj5MoFO1Ig1 alNv83.Cf.ZdAkMabj150M2nW7hqZEu7PWxIrZMLQsBXUrXmFNPl87ngwEe3 vvGE4U92YikMoy_sFnTspoKU7cJMWHSh9dTtXQRHkjpAa50ogFxUFXi.0zfr H9I5QCTCH7AEb_IE5uVzwfSWgq16LGA2SSZQRVEAOyPCON5pm92CC.ltln1n EpC.pqw-- Original-Received: from [207.8.91.2] by web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:43:17 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.109.292656 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-Received-From: 209.191.91.168 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11729 Archived-At: > From:Bruce Korb =0A> =0A> I was trying to build Gui= le 2.0, but I stubbed my toe on=0A> "Oh, you haven't installed libunistring= ".=A0 So, I found one=0A> and installed=A0 it:=0A=0A> =0A> checking for LIB= FFI... configure: error: Package requirements (libffi) were not =0A> met:= =0A=0AReally these checks should be at the top of the configure script.=0AO= n Cygwin where it takes about=A010 minutes to do the configure,=0Ait is a b= it frustrating that these likely-to-fail checks are last.=0A=0AAlso, is the= libunistring dependency still necessary, since=0AGuile's moved to its own = iconv-based conversion?=A0 If there are=0Aonly a few libunistring functions= left, maybe we should try to=0Aget rid of them or use gnulib for the rest.= =0A=0A> =0A> No package 'libffi' found=0A=0AOn Fedora at least, libffi's be= en packaged for a long time.=A0 I think=0Ait is widely available generally = as a pre-built package.=0A=0A-Mike