Subject:
Re: [ruby-ffi] [BUG] ffi 0.5.4 on OSX ?
From:
Jeremy Hinegardner
Date:
12/10/09 10:46 AM
To:
ruby-ffi@googlegroups.com

As of commit b991c09de631cc204cfc8232c661ff7dd0fd9ed0 'rake test'
and installing as a gem both work for me.  A test piece of
code I was playing with using ff works too.

All is good here, thanks!

enjoy,

-jeremy

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:11:32PM +1000, Wayne Meissner wrote:
> Ok, I think this one is fixed.
> 
> I tested in 3 modes.
> 
> 1) no macports in PATH.  Uses /usr/bin/ruby and compiles libffi from
> source, because /usr/lib/libffi is dodgy.
> 
> 2) macports in PATH, using /usr/bin/ruby.  Links against macports
> libffi, found via macports pkg-config
> 
> 3) macports in PATH, using macports ruby.  Links against macports libffi.
> 
> Jeremy, can you update to ffi master and test it on your setup?
> 
> 2009/12/10 Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@hinegardner.org>:
> > I just tried updating to 0.5.4 and ended up with this:
> >
> > ? ?http://pastie.org/736768
> >
> > Doing some digging into the code reveals that in the extconf.rb it fails
> > to find the 'ffi.h' header, but the link tests for ffi_call and
> > ffi_prep_closure succeed so libffi_ok is true in extconf.rb.
> > When the extension builds, it fails because ffi.h is not in the include
> > path.
> >
> > It looks to me as if ffi already exits on my OSX
> > (/usr/include/ffi/ffi.h), but but it is version 2.1 instead of the
> > shipped version 3.0.6 of ffi with gem version 0.5.4
> >
> > ? ?% grep VERSION /usr/include/ffi/ffi*
> > ? ?/usr/include/ffi/fficonfig.h:#define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.1"
> > ? ?/usr/include/ffi/fficonfig.h:#define VERSION "2.1-pyobjc"
> >
> > Adding "/usr/include/ffi" to the find_header() call results in conflicts
> > on the PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_STRING, PACKAGE_TARNAME,
> > and PACKAGE_VERSION declarations.
> >
> > I was able to work around the issue for me with the attached patch, but
> > it is probably not the correct way to deal with this issue.
> >
> > enjoy,
> >
> > -jeremy
> >
> > --
> > ========================================================================
> > ?Jeremy Hinegardner ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?jeremy@hinegardner.org
> >
> >

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