443452 – dev-lang/polyml-5.5.0 should depend on and use dev-libs/libffi

Bug 443452 - dev-lang/polyml-5.5.0 should depend on and use dev-libs/libffi

Summary: dev-lang/polyml-5.5.0 should depend on and use dev-libs/libffi

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Team for the ML programming language family

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Reported:	2012-11-15 20:55 UTC by René 'Necoro' Neumann
Modified:	2012-12-05 09:57 UTC (History)
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Description René 'Necoro' Neumann 2012-11-15 20:55:00 UTC

Starting from version 5.5.0 PolyMl uses libFFI for the FFI. It comes bundled with its own internal copy, but also provides the compile switch "--with-system-libffi".

As Gentoo has the "don't use bundled libs" policy and upstream supports the unbundling (via the given switch), this should be honored in the ebuild: Depend on virtual/libffi and pass the switch to econf.

Or are there are other reasons that speak against this?

Comment 1 Mark Wright gentoo-dev

2012-12-05 09:57:55 UTC

Committed the suggested fix, thanks for the report and the fix.