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From: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/ffcall is looking for a new maintainer
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:52:23
Message-Id: 66c0f5225acf50bf0f6a60b3f468fd83@cafarelli.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/ffcall is looking for a new maintainer by Samuli Suominen
1 Le 12/07/2012 16:12, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
2 > On 07/11/2012 04:36 PM, Bernard Cafarelli wrote:
3 >> This package historically belongs to the gnustep herd, but ffcall
4 >> support in
5 >> gnustep has been deprecated for some time now in favor of libffi (in
6 >> fact the
7 >> USE-flag may go away soon)
8 >>
9 >> Also, I do not have the time to work on it, although it requires a
10 >> bit
11 >> of work:
12 >> * switch to "new" upstream (recommending to grab CVS tarballs) at
13 >> http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/
14 >> * a bunch of opened issues (parallel make/install, ldflags,
15 >> execstacks,
16 >> ...):
17 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ffcall
18 >>
19 >> So if you are interested, please add yourself to metadata.xml (and
20 >> remove
21 >> gnustep herd) and start bug sqashing. As a bonus, you will still
22 >> have a
23 >> backup
24 >> herd (common-lisp), thoug a real maintainer would be great
25 >>
26 >> Reverse RDEPEND for dev-libs/ffcall:
27 >> dev-lang/gforth-0.7.0
28 >> dev-lisp/clisp-2.47-r1 dev-lisp/clisp-2.48-r1
29 >> dev-lisp/clisp-2.48-r2
30 >> gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.20.1:!libffi
31 >> gnustep-base/gnustep-base-1.24.0-r1:!libffi
32 >>
33 >
34 > libffi should be a full replacement and more widely adapted variant.
35 > isn't it time to let this simply fade away (lastrite)?
36
37 Well, after checking gforth, it looks like it supports both, through
38 automagic
39 dependencies in configure, so it is fixable. But clisp still has a hard
40 depend on ffcall, and no support for libffi