Bug 54930

Summary:	dev-libs/libffi-2.0_beta (Updated package)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) <fafhrd>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Gnustep project <gnustep>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	fafhrd
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	54743
Attachments:	The main ebuild for the package.

Description Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-23 14:00:35 UTC

Please find attached the ebuild for this package.

libffi offers a foreign function interface system.  This is needed by languages that want to be able to dynamically figure out function parameters and pass parameters to functions at runtime.

libffi in portage is 6 years old!!!

libffi or ffcall is required by gnustep-base (see bug 54743)

Comment 1 Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-23 14:01:19 UTC

Created attachment 33980 [details]
The main ebuild for the package.

Comment 2 Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-23 14:02:16 UTC

The tarball needs to be moved to a gentoo mirror, as my webserver is sad.  Just sad.

Comment 3 Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-23 14:57:56 UTC

I suppose I wasn't clear on this: libffi was moved into the GCC tree to at least get some maintenance.  It's updated rarely, but it does get updated.  I need this version, which is from GCC 3.3.3, to build gnustep-base with libffi support.  Newer versions do exist in the newest gcc cvs, but they don't work with gnustep-base (yet).

Comment 4 Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-25 13:26:05 UTC

newer version available.