On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:21:45PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Eujean Snyman wrote:
> > 
> > Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > 
> >               --with-libffcall-prefix=/usr       &&
> 
> This last option is not in BLFS, but I added it in a test build and it doe
> not make a difference for me.
> 

With libffcall-1.13 installed (which happens to be the only version
available, and which is newer than what I tested for 2.49.50 - I saw
a notification of a newer version, but I thought it too was a
prerelease), and with pointing it to libffcall in /usr I too get

> > ;; Loading file /sources/blfs/clisp-2.49/build/readline/readline.fas ...
> > *** - FFI::FIND-FOREIGN-VARIABLE: foreign variable
> >        #<FOREIGN-VARIABLE "rl_readline_state" #x00007F8FCDDC5010> does not 
> > have the required size or
> >        alignment
> > 

but mine reports

make: *** [Makefile:2598: base] Error 1

which is one line different.

So that does seem to support my thesis, i.e. action is needed if
libffcall is present.  I prefer the patch, because it clearly does
no harm, a one-line sed might do the wrong-thing e.g. if somebody is
using old readline (and what was proposed doesn't match upstream's
change).

Unlike my memory of clisp-2.49.50, providing libffcall does not fix
the test failure, so I see no reason to move libffcall from an
external dependency at this time.

Eujean - thanks for the report - if your configure args are
complete, you have put the html docs from clisp in /usr/share/html
(it doesn't respect docdir, despite what the configure script says).

ĸen
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