On 10/14/06, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky@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