Configuring gnu-gnu-gnu on OSX 10.3.4

[Thierry DELHAISE]

Hi all,

I trying to build gnustep-base on OSX 10.3.4

./configure failed on gnustep/core/base : saying that ffi functionality 
are not here :

...
checking ffi.h usability... no
checking ffi.h presence... no
checking for ffi.h... no
...

but I have libffi.

I think the problem I face out is due to ./configure not being able to 
find my "LOCAL" libffi.

Any Ideas ?


THX in advance

BeFree



---------------------------------------- MY ENV 
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I allready have a gnustep-base installed (and GNUstep.sh is source) 
build with :

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/GNUstep 
--with-library-combo=gnu-gnu-gnu --disable-flattened 
--enable-multi-platform.

For those who want to know why : I really want this env on OS/X : I 
just want OS/X to be a host env for GNUstep targets.

1 - So first step I tried for making base :

Use Native gcc3.3 compiler of OS/X to build base :

So "i've just run configure" on "base" without parameters : so 
./configure use env setup by gnustep-make.
In this test, so the used comiler in the native gcc3.3 comming from 
OS/X :

This compiler does not provide NXConstStr.h and does not provide libffi 
too. So this don't work.

About libffi : I first started by building ffcal on darwin, but fffcal 
failed to "CHECK" : make check failed with

cd trampoline_r; make check
./test1
Works, test1 passed.
./test2
test2 passed.
touch tests.passed.powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0
./minitests > minitests.out
make[1]: *** [check] Error 132
make: *** [check] Error 2

2 - So I've decided de use libffi : for this reason, and since libffi 
is not available on gcc3.3-apple, I 've install gcc-3.4.1-RELEASE.

gcc-3.4.1 successfully build and install with 
language=C,C++,Objective-C.

gcc3.4 is install in /usr/local/gcc3.4.

So touch my env by adding :

/usr/local/gcc3.4/bin in PATH in front of all vars.
/usr/local/gcc3.4/lib in DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I 've verified that ffi.h is present in /usr/local/gcc3.4/include.

and now I have libffi.dylib -> libffi-2.00-beta.dylib in /usr/local/lib


 but with all this sets, I failed configuring.