[Gsll-devel] Build error (fsbv)

[Liam Healy]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Jason Nielsen<jdn at math.carleton.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Liam Healy wrote:
>>
>> Not so fast...  I'd like to try to come up with a solution that works
>> for the major OSes/distrbutions when things are installed in standard
>> places.  The :cc-flags is a hack to add a new path; why is it
>> necessary?
>>
>> What version of Linux are you using?
>> What library(ies) are you having problems with?
>> Are they installed in the system-standard places?
>> What files are in the "wrong" place?   Where are they?
>>
>> As for me, I use Debian.  Everything is installed from the
>> distribution, so packages like libffi-dev place the .h files in the
>> standard places.  For example,
>>
>> dpkg -L libffi-dev
>> ...
>> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ffi.h
>> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ffitarget.h
>> ...
>>
>> I put (include "ffi.h") in libffi-unix.lisp, and that works.
>> My understanding is that almost all distributions conform to the FHS
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ and so this should work on all these
>> distributions.  If that is not the case,  I would like to know why.
>> I do not know how to provide alternative .h paths, but I can ask on
>> the cffi-grovel list if necessary.  I hope it is not necessary; the
>> preferred solution is to (include ...) the files in the right place.
>>
>> Liam
>
> I am running Ubuntu 8.10 on a dual quad core 64bit system.  Until recently I
> did not have to do any -I magic to include headers but I do now and you can
> use the date stamp of my original post as a time-line since before that I
> had no trouble with compiling vanilla git pulls using sbcl v1.0.27. In truth
> I use a heavily tuned system as I do rather computationally intensive stuff
> (this is my test/debug machine):
>
> [4] octopus ~ $:~> locate ffi.h
> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ffi.h
> ....
>
> so in terms of gsll I am fairly sure that everything is in the standard
> place.  By the way keep up the good work as gsll is awesome!
>
> Jason
>
>

Well then I'm stumped.  Ubuntu should be identical to Debian, and your
fii.h is exactly where mine is, and I can't think of a reason it would
have changed on you.  It certainly is not anything I did in FSBV or
GSLL -- you can check the repository (or better yet, regress to
earlier versions and run) and see for yourself.  Those include paths
have stayed the same from the beginning (except FSBV for Mac OSX).

I don't think anything changed in CFFI either; I am running a fairly
recent version (last week from darcs repo).  But maybe a query to the
cffi-devel mailing list (if you're on it) would elicit some helpful
insight into what's going on.

Liam