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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:52:21
Message-Id: 20080606065214.GY1163@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself) by Donnie Berkholz
1 On 05-06-2008 22:47:28 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun , Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 > > # Samuli Suominen <drac@g.o> (05 Jun 2008)
4 > > # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners.
5 > > # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724.
6 > > dev-libs/libffi
7 > > dev-lang/squeak
8 > > x11-libs/gtk-server
9 >
10 > The latest version of g-wrap (1.9.11) requires the external libffi
11 > released a month or two ago, because it looks for the pkgconfig file
12 > installed by that and not gcc:
13 >
14 > - libffi is no longer distributed with g-wrap, as it is available
15 > as a stand-alone package now (instead of being burried in the
16 > GCC sources).
17 >
18 > Thoughts?
19
20 They might refer to this:
21 http://sourceware.org/libffi/
22 which had a "recent" release (3.0.5). The libffi that's in our tree
23 right now (3.4.3) is pretty old, matching GCC-3.4.3. It originally was
24 used for GNUstep, but that package can also work with GCC's libffi, and
25 ffcall these days.
26
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29 Fabian Groffen
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