ffihugs, Storable.so

[Ross Paterson]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:23:22AM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
> > Levent (and Oliver Braun) asked why ffi-using modules are compiled
> > in the install directories (rather than in the build tree and merely
> > copied on install, like everything else).  Is that because the
> > alternative doesn't work if your build tree is full of symbolic
> > links, due to path canonicalization?
> 
> I think it is currently necessary to install HsFFI.h for ffihugs to
> work because it expects it to be in {Hugs}/include.  
> 
> Specifying something like +L'-I$build_dir/includes' when invoking
> ffihugs might be enough to fix it.  
> 
> If you wanted to try to overcome this in the C code instead of the
> makefile, the code is: [...]

I think the Makefile is definitely the place.  We can change {Hugs}
temporarily by setting the HUGSDIR environment variable.

> As far as I know, symbolic links are not an issue (though I guess it's
> possible).

They are a problem, but it seems I'm the only one using them.