[Debian GNUstep maintainers] gnustep-base and libffcall

[Hubert Chathi]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:55:32 +0300, Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> said:

> Now that libffi is preferred upstream:
> 2008-07-01 Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm at gnu.org>

>         * configure.ac: use libffi in preference to ffcall as it
> doesn't mess up the stack.

> gnustep-base/1.16.3-1 got built against libffi on all arches (I think,
> but didn't check thoroughly) -- still has to be built on alpha and
> sparc, but I guess the build will be successful.

Thanks for pointing that out.

> Should we get rid of the -libffi packages and make libffi the default
> everywhere?  FWIW, I've been using them on i386 and powerpc since
> Hubert introduced them, without any problems.

I've been using libffi on i386 too.  There were problems with amd64, but
those supposedly got fixed.

I'd like to get rid of the -libffi packages, and just default to libffi
(and stop maintaining ffcall), but seeing as we're so close to the
release, I don't want to make such a big change, since it probably won't
be very widely tested.

So I'll try to make gnustep-base compile against ffcall, and then once
Lenny is released, I'll switch over to libffi.

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