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Re: [ITP] libffi (attn: Dave Korn)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:29:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ITP] libffi (attn: Dave Korn)
- References: <51652B99 dot 5090405 at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Apr 10 04:06, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> 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/
Isn't that independent from what gcc itself does? If so, feel free
to upload.
Corinna
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