On 05-06-2008 22:47:28 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun     , Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > # Samuli Suominen <drac@g.o> (05 Jun 2008)
> > # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners.
> > # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724.
> > dev-libs/libffi
> > dev-lang/squeak
> > x11-libs/gtk-server
> 
> The latest version of g-wrap (1.9.11) requires the external libffi 
> released a month or two ago, because it looks for the pkgconfig file 
> installed by that and not gcc:
> 
>     - libffi is no longer distributed with g-wrap, as it is available
>       as a stand-alone package now (instead of being burried in the
>       GCC sources).
> 
> Thoughts?

They might refer to this:
http://sourceware.org/libffi/
which had a "recent" release (3.0.5).  The libffi that's in our tree
right now (3.4.3) is pretty old, matching GCC-3.4.3.  It originally was
used for GNUstep, but that package can also work with GCC's libffi, and
ffcall these days.


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