[Yhc] Build problems concerning FFI

[Thomas Shackell]

Hi Leon,

The bug is likely in the libffi which I lifted from redhat.org, you'd
hope it might be correct but I guess you can't have everything ;-)

I'll have a go at fixing it :-)

Thanks

Tom

Leon Smith wrote:
> Hello all.  I'm the student working on the typechecker for Google's SoC.
> 
> I ran into a few build problems with the repository.  I've attached a
> patch for them, though two problems are not covered in this patch.
> These problems both concern
> 
> yhc-devel/src/runtime/libtool
> 
> which is a generated script.   First,  something tries to run it
> directly,  without running sh on it.   Second,  the configuration
> script does not set the variable $max_cmd_len on my platform (Darwin).
>   Both these cause the build process to fail.
> 
> I worked around these issues by setting the executable bit and editing
> the generated script myself to set the variable.   However the true
> fixes are beyond my expertise.
> 
> Congrats on self hosting.   I did download and try out YHC sometime in
> January.   It compiled without problems,  but I didn't get to use it.
> I don't remember what issues I was having with YHC and the program I
> was writing at the time.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Leon
> 
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