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From: "Bjoern Koenig" <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de>
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Subject: Re: ports/123756: [patch] put devel/libffi includes in sane place
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The following reply was made to PR ports/123756; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Bjoern Koenig" <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc: mjl@luckie.org.nz
Subject: Re: ports/123756: [patch] put devel/libffi includes in sane place
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 16:51:21 +0200 (CEST)

 Hello Matthew,
 
 when I started with creating the ports libffi-devel and later libffi 3 I
 used /usr/local/include, as you suggest now. So I have the same feeling as
 you that this location would be a better place.
 
 With 3.0.4 I deceided to use /usr/local/lib/libffi-%%PORTVERSION%%/include
 because this location is designated by the authors of libffi and basically
 I do not like the idea that every distribution make idiosyncratic
 adjustments.
 
 I asked Anthony Green (the initial author of libffi) about the reason for
 this location and he answered that some distributions can potentially
 install different versions of libffi in lib/ and lib64/ for example. I
 know that this does not apply to FreeBSD, but I think that the current
 location does not hurt since software developers always have to use
 pkg-config in case their software relies on libffi. Ports like lang/squeak
 should do it in the same manner as I did it with java/jamvm and
 java/sablevm.
 
 Do you still have another reason except sanity? ;-)
 
 I'm thinking about it. I tend to move the headers to /usr/local/include
 and update the port to 3.0.5 briefly.
 
 Björn