This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

[ITP] libffi (attn: Dave Korn)


libffi development moved out of GCC into a separate project a long time ago; the copy included in GCC is used for libgcj, but only as a convenience (static) library, and it is usually a few point releases behind the standalone version. Finally, last month, GCC was patched upstream to stop installing its copy (a similar patch for 4.7.2 and 4.8.0 is in Ports git).

Therefore I think the time has arrived to join Fedora and Debian and switch i686 to the standalone version. (We are already using this for x86_64.) This will also simplify building many of the ~20 packages which use libffi and expect the .pc file provided only by the standalone version.

http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/libffi
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/temp/libffi/


Yaakov


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]