Re: [racket-dev] when libffi is already installed

2011-04-12 Thread Eli Barzilay
About a minute ago, Robby Findler wrote: > Won't said newbie's be even more confused to find that drracket > doesn't work? Or am I missing something here? If the builds use our own copy of libffi then that's one *less* reason for it to not work. > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Eli Barzilay w

Re: [racket-dev] when libffi is already installed

2011-04-12 Thread Robby Findler
Won't said newbie's be even more confused to find that drracket doesn't work? Or am I missing something here? Robby On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Two minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: >> > Two days ago, Matth

Re: [racket-dev] when libffi is already installed

2011-04-12 Thread Eli Barzilay
Two minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > Two days ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: > >> As of the latest in the git repo, when libffi is installed > >> (including header files), then `configure' detects it and uses it, > >> instead of building

Re: [racket-dev] when libffi is already installed

2011-04-12 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Two days ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> As of the latest in the git repo, when libffi is installed >> (including header files), then `configure' detects it and uses it, >> instead of building the copy of libffi that is included with the >> Racke

Re: [racket-dev] when libffi is already installed

2011-04-12 Thread Eli Barzilay
Two days ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: > As of the latest in the git repo, when libffi is installed > (including header files), then `configure' detects it and uses it, > instead of building the copy of libffi that is included with the > Racket sources. Does anyone see any problem with adding `--disab

[racket-dev] when libffi is already installed

2011-04-10 Thread Matthew Flatt
As of the latest in the git repo, when libffi is installed (including header files), then `configure' detects it and uses it, instead of building the copy of libffi that is included with the Racket sources. Hopefully this will just work, but watch out for new `configure' problems. ___