[Yhc] Issues building yhc

[Andrew Wilkinson]

On 10/14/06, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky at gmail.com> wrote:2. I had to add
a line to depends/ctypes/libffi/include/ffi.h:

>
> #define __LONG_LONG_MAX__ 9223372036854775807LL
>
> before
>
> #ifdef LONG_LONG_MAX
> # define FFI_LONG_LONG_MAX LONG_LONG_MAX
> #else
> .
> .
> .
>
> This may be a problem with my C compiler, because its own "limits.h"
> has definition for __LONG__LONG_MAX, but for some reason it is not
> visible to the compiler. So this is not a suggested fix, but just a
> question whether anybody had to do this for an old gcc
> (egcs 2.91.66 in my case)?
>
> Without that line, I got an error about unsupported 64 bit types
> (although the compiler supports long longs perfectly).


That version of EGCS is at least 8 years old, although Tom has the final say
on things like this I really don't think we should be adding patches to
support versions of GCC prior to version 3.

3. This may be a question to the scons team, but since it is used for
> this particukar project, I'm asking here first.
>
> How can I specify a custom path to a library, include file, etc.?
>
> With autoconf, I am usually able to specify "--with-bla=/foo/bar"
> provided that the developer of configure.ac made such an option
> available. How can the same be done with scons? E. g. I want to use
> alternate libgmp instead of one installed in /usr/lib?
>

Unfortunately there isn't a built in way to handle that. I will check in a
patch later today so you can compile it using LIBPATH=xxx scons.

Cheers,
Andrew
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