Re: Please help test libffi 3.0.11-rc3

[Paul Ackersviller <pda at sdf dot org>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 08:28:45AM -0400, Anthony Green wrote:
> I've uploaded release candidate 3 for testing here:
>   ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.11-rc3.tar.gz
> 
> Please test it on whatever systems you have at your disposal, and
> update the testing wiki here:
>   http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php/Libffi_3.0.11
> 
> I'd like to make a release within a week.

Looks to work well for me, and I should be able to add a couple of new
entries on your wiki (still doing some testing on the second).

I've only run across a couple of minor glitches in building ant testing.
Firstly, on a HP-UX box I need GNU make to get through the build -- the
system's sysv make get stuck waiting on stdin for input.  The last line
of output looks like
	/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC    --mode=link gcc463 -mlp64 -g  -Os -g -Wall
	-fexceptions  -version-info `grep -v '^\ -mlp64 -o libffi.la -rpath
	/ecldev/thbm/pa/ia64,HP-UX,B.11.31/lib src/prep_cif.lo src/types.lo
	src/raw_api.lo  src/java_raw_api.lo src/closures.lo
	src/ia64/ffi.lo src/ia64/unix.lo
The grep does look wrong, but I didn't see the error in Makefile.

Second thing was that the tests don't seem to use $(CC) at all, do they
directly run gcc?  To get proper 64-bit links I had to manually add -mlp64 to
testsuite/libffi.call/call.exp and testsuite/libffi.special/special.exp both.