glib doesn't build from source

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2012-05-19 15:48, Ken Brown wrote:
> I tried to build glib using glib2.0-2.32.2-1.cygport from the source for
> Cygwin's libglib2.0_0-2.32.2-1 package, and the build failed as follows:
>
> So I added the lines
>
> export LIBFFI_LIBS="-lffi"
> export LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I${includedir}"
>
> to the .cygport file, and the build then succeeded.
>
> Yaakov, why did the build work for you with the existing .cygport?

Good question. :-)  It turns out I had a hand-written libffi.pc file on 
my system, probably from my short-lived gcc packaging work.  I fixed 
this in glib2.0-2.32.3-1.cygport.


Yaakov