[ITP] libffi (attn: Dave Korn)

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2013-04-10 04:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.

Only the man3 pages collide with gcc4-core.  But gcc's libffi.dll.a will 
take priority over the one in /usr/lib (see gcc -print-search-dirs), so 
manual intervention will be necessary until our gcc stops shipping libffi.


Yaakov