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On 2005-09-02 13:07:23 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I've been trying to phase out dev-libs/libffi for a long while...if |
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>> someone can figure out a patch for gcc-3.3 series that compiles and |
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>> installs libffi w/o building the entirety of gjc/java/etc, that would |
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>> be fantastic; gcc-3.4 series has had this for a long time, and the |
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>> patch is incredibly simple -- my one attempt at doing this for |
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>> gcc-3.3 |
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>> series proved fruitless. (The little bit of monkeying I've done with |
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>> gcc-4 series has proved easy wrt to this.) |
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> so has this all been integrated into the gcc ebuilds or does it need |
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> to be or |
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> ... ? |
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> -mike |
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> =gcc-3.4.3-r1 and <gcc-4* compiles and installs libffi seperately if |
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> 'objc' is used (regardless of 'gcj', which always installs it); i.e. |
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> the patch is already in there for that stated range of versions. |
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For gcc-4*, from what I looked at, the patch will also be quite easy |
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to make. I've talked to one of the gcc/objc maintainers, and 4.1.0 |
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might already offer libffi as a sepate build target (i.e. no need for |
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a patch to make it one). |
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For gcc-3.3, I looked at it way back when, and gave up ... so it might |
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not be difficult, I suppose, just significantly different enough from |
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the patch that works with gcc-3.4. |
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The dev-libs/libffi ebuilds are based on early libstdc++-v3 ebuilds |
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... but unlike libstdc++-v3, there's really no reason to offer it as a |
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seperate package, especially since gcc offers it. |
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The most ideal scenario is, across all gcc versions, 'objc' only |
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installs objc support, 'gcj' keeps doing it's gcj thing, and a new |
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flag 'libffi' installs libffi regardless of 'objc' or 'gcj'. As one |
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of the few foreign function interface libraries out there (ffcall |
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comes to mind as well), libffi may be useful to some outside of |
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objc+GNUstep or gcj. |
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__armando |
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