On Dec 14, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote:

> 
> On 14 Dec 2009, at 23:05, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
>> - -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't Install clisp 2.48-1 on 64-bit  
>> Snow
>> Leopard and Fink
>> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:38:18 +0100
>> From: Jorge Acereda <jacer...@gmail.com>
>> To: Lucio Bragagnolo <lvc...@gmail.com>
>> CC: fink-beginn...@lists.sourceforge.net, jacer...@users.sourceforge.net
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm marked as the maintainer of ffcall. I switched since to libffi for
>> my interpreter and no longer use ffcall. I would help, but I'll be  
>> quite
>> busy for the next 4 months. It seems the config.guess script is
>> detecting the arch as i386 instead of x86_64. Even if it was detected
>> properly, the darwin assembler will be a problem here.
> Right _ I had fixed ffcall locally by adding the obvious
> ConfigureParams: --build=%m-apple-darwin`uname -r|cut -f1 -d.` --host= 
> %m-apple-darwin`uname -r|cut -f1 -d.`
> but then the build itself ran into assembler problems
> (a bunch of "Unknown pseudo-op" in compiling avcall-x86_64.s )

These are Linux as-isms. I tried regenerating the .s files from the .c and it 
crashed in the tests, so I guess the package is stuck for now.


> So I took the cheap way out to replace (only for 64bit)
> in clisp's  %c
> --with-ffcall-prefix=%p   by   --without-ffcall
> (and adjusting deps)
> 
>> If anyone wants
>> to take a look at this, perhaps the shortest route is to make clisp  
>> use
>> libffi instead of ffcall.
> Woould be great to have a correctly built clisp _ whether with libffi
> or by fixing  avcall-x86_64.s  ...
> 
> JF Mertens

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