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Re: libffi - the 10th Anniversary Release
- From: Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay dot org>
- To: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:56:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: libffi - the 10th Anniversary Release
- References: <479F1FCB.5060002@redhat.com>
On Jan 29, Anthony Green wrote:
> We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of the last libffi release.
> People are still using it, and gcc doesn't install it as a user library
> -- so perhaps it's time to make another new release.
>
> I've updated the libffi cvs sources with a recent snapshot from gcc.
> It builds on x86 linux as a stand-alone library.
This is possibly a stupid question -- but aren't the main sources in
the gcc subversion repository?
> In any case, I'd appreciate it if people would like to try checking
> out the latest from the libffi cvs repository and build/test it.
FWIW, we (www.plt-scheme.org) recently updated our copy from the gcc
repository, and it builds fine -- we have these patches:
* We recreated libffi/configure with autoconf version 2.61
* We changed config/multi.m4 (not inthe libffi directory) to allow
in-source-tree builds, the change is from line:
if test "$with_target_subdir" != "."; then
to
if test ! -z "$with_target_subdir" && test "$with_target_subdir" != "."; then
* Removed +live_support in src/powerpc/darwin_closure.S so it builds
with Mac OS X 10.3
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