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Re: Libffi merge [Was Re: [patch] powerpc libffi Net/FreeBSD ]
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- Cc: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>, Andreas Tobler <andreast-list at fgznet dot ch>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Java Patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:06:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: Libffi merge [Was Re: [patch] powerpc libffi Net/FreeBSD ]
- References: <4A256DDD.7060409@fgznet.ch> <4A25C34C.6020403@gmail.com> <4A2644EC.4030901@redhat.com> <4A266750.5040203@moxielogic.com> <4A26822B.7000704@gmail.com>
Dave Korn wrote:
> Anthony Green wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Questions for Anthony Green:
>>>
>>> 1. I don't understand the libffi version numbers. Can you give
>>> me any explanations? It seems to be 3.0.8 upstream but 2.1 in gcc,
>>> but this doesn't seem in any way to correspond with reality.
>>>
>> Configury like this just hasn't been merged back into GCC. The version
>> number in GCC is mostly irrelevant as GCC doesn't install libffi; it is
>> simply incorporated in its entirety into libgcj.
>
> It may not be supposed to, but GCC HEAD currently does (for me at any rate)
> install $prefix/lib/libffi.{la,a}.
Yes, I agree. Installing libffi is deliberate.
Andrew.