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On 07/11/2012 04:36 PM, Bernard Cafarelli wrote: |
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> This package historically belongs to the gnustep herd, but ffcall |
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> support in |
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> gnustep has been deprecated for some time now in favor of libffi (in |
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> fact the |
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> USE-flag may go away soon) |
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> |
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> Also, I do not have the time to work on it, although it requires a bit |
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> of work: |
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> * switch to "new" upstream (recommending to grab CVS tarballs) at |
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/ |
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> * a bunch of opened issues (parallel make/install, ldflags, execstacks, |
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> ...): |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ffcall |
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> |
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> So if you are interested, please add yourself to metadata.xml (and remove |
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> gnustep herd) and start bug sqashing. As a bonus, you will still have a |
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> backup |
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> herd (common-lisp), thoug a real maintainer would be great |
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> |
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> Reverse RDEPEND for dev-libs/ffcall: |
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> dev-lang/gforth-0.7.0 |
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> dev-lisp/clisp-2.47-r1 dev-lisp/clisp-2.48-r1 dev-lisp/clisp-2.48-r2 |
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> gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.20.1:!libffi |
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> gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.24.0-r1:!libffi |
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> |
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libffi should be a full replacement and more widely adapted variant. |
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isn't it time to let this simply fade away (lastrite)? |
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