The installed libffi not found!
 

Hi

i am trying to install guile but whenever i type : "./configure" the last output lines are as follows:
.......
checking for LIBFFI... configure: error: Package requirements (libffi) were not met:

No package 'libffi' found
.....

but when i type:[root@localhost guile-2.0.6]# urpmi libffi
Package libffi4-4.6.1-3.3-mdv2011.0.i586 is already installed

What does this mean?! Please help.
Thank you in advance

try locate libffi to find out where is it installed and what is the real name of that lib.

libffi : 'configure is looking for a complete install of libffi.

So far you only have the run time files installed.
The missing files are in the package 'libffi4-devel'.

# urpmi libffi4-devel

Searching for "libffi" packages : # urpmq -fuzzy libffi

P.S.: "No package 'libffi' found" means no /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libffi.pc
( libffi.pc is a package config file.)

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libffi locations
 

Hi
libffi ... locations:
1-Home/....
2- /usr/local/lib/
3- /usr/share/doc/

No package!?
 

Hi
[root@localhost lib]# urpmi libffi4-devel
No package named libffi4-devel
[root@localhost lib]# urpmi libffi4-devel
No package named libffi4-devel
[root@localhost lib]# urpmi libffi4
Package libffi4-4.6.1-3.3-mdv2011.0.i586 is already installed

here is a list about the packages: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat...evel&srodzaj=3. looks like its name is libffi-devel, but I'm not really sure. You can search for libffi4 package also on that page, libffi4-devel does not exist for mandriva 11.

Sorry, the package name for 2011 is 'libffi-devel'
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/dist.../main/release/

But then again, the first command is always :
# urpmq -fuzzy <name> ( or part of name )
.... so you can see the correct name for yourself.

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