Re: libffi problems when compiling glib-2.31.0

[Victor Ananjevsky <ananasik gmail com>]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:35:18 -0700
Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn illinois edu> wrote:

> gtk'ers:
> 
> I'm having some problems getting glib-2.31.0 installed because I can't
> seem to resolve the libffi dependency.  I installed libffi 3.0.10
> using ./configure --prefix=/mypath/; make; make install
> 
> Initially, doing ./configure --prefix=/mypath/ failed with glib until I set
> LIBFFI_LIBS=/mypath/lib
> LIBFFI_CFLAGS=/mypath/include
> 
> This made it pass the configure check, but doing a "make" led to the
> failure below. I next noticed that ffi.h and ffitarget.h are installed
> in a weird location (/mypath/lib/libffi-3.0.10/include/ffi.h and
> /mypath/lib/libffi-3.0.10/include/ffitarget.h so I tried to help out
> with a ln -s:
> 
> ln -s /mypath/lib/libffi-3.0.10/include/ffi.h /mypath/include/
> ln -s /mypath/lib/libffi-3.0.10/include/ffitarget.h /mypath/include/
> 
> This also didn't work (the error below was identical).  Any ideas on
> how to fix this?
> 

simply add "/mypath/lib/pkgconfig" to PKG_CONFIG_PATH shell variable 



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