[Yhc] Build problems concerning FFI

[Leon Smith]

Well... I haven't actually tried to _use_ FFI,  I was just getting
everything compiled.  :)

I'm pretty sure that the darcs patch I posted contains the right fix
for a Makefile problem I didn't explicitly mention,  namely,  giving
it the right path to find some of the files.   YHC-hat was also having
some issues, so I just commented it out since I'm not worried about it
at the moment.   (Though,  I don't know what YHC-Hat has to do with
FFI makefiles.)

Best,
Leon

On 6/2/06, Thomas Shackell <shackell at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Leon,
>
> The bug is likely in the libffi which I lifted from redhat.org, you'd
> hope it might be correct but I guess you can't have everything ;-)
>
> I'll have a go at fixing it :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
> Leon Smith wrote:
> > Hello all.  I'm the student working on the typechecker for Google's SoC.
> >
> > I ran into a few build problems with the repository.  I've attached a
> > patch for them, though two problems are not covered in this patch.
> > These problems both concern
> >
> > yhc-devel/src/runtime/libtool
> >
> > which is a generated script.   First,  something tries to run it
> > directly,  without running sh on it.   Second,  the configuration
> > script does not set the variable $max_cmd_len on my platform (Darwin).
> >   Both these cause the build process to fail.
> >
> > I worked around these issues by setting the executable bit and editing
> > the generated script myself to set the variable.   However the true
> > fixes are beyond my expertise.
> >
> > Congrats on self hosting.   I did download and try out YHC sometime in
> > January.   It compiled without problems,  but I didn't get to use it.
> > I don't remember what issues I was having with YHC and the program I
> > was writing at the time.
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> > Leon
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Yhc mailing list
> > Yhc at haskell.org
> > http://www.haskell.org//mailman/listinfo/yhc
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Yhc mailing list
> Yhc at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org//mailman/listinfo/yhc
>