From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 00:50:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FE516A4D2 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:50:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3E243D2D for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:50:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) iA90oZQK011246 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:50:35 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iA90oZvR011245; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:50:35 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:50:35 GMT Message-Id: <200411090050.iA90oZvR011245@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Horance Chou Subject: Re: ports/70528: No libffi on amd64, either with native compiler or from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Horance Chou List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:50:36 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/70528; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Horance Chou To: Pete French Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, kris@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/70528: No libffi on amd64, either with native compiler or from ports Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:14:37 +0800 Pete French ´£¨ì: >>I've reply to kris@ for this pr. The "libffi" is now part of gcc and no >>longer maintained, therefor it will not support new platform like IA64, >>AMD64, etc. For more detail information, please check >> >> > >Do you mean that the port is not maintained (which I know) or that the libffi >which is part of gcc is not being maintained by the gcc people ? > >I though that having libffi as part of gcc meant that it was maintained >along with gcc and would be installed on any system gcc was on. But I >can't find a way to get it installed onto FreeBSD 5 at all. > >-pete. > > Sorry for the misunderstanding. The latest libffi release is 1.20, which was released on October 5, 1998. And, according to http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/ , the libffi official homepage: -- Note: This page is out of date. libffi is now largely maintained as part of GCC. Hopefully this separate library will be brought up to date some time. Please contact me if you are interested in helping -- Anthony Green - green@redhat.com -- What I wanted to say was: the libffi is now maintained "standalone" now. I've check gcc 3.4 source tarball, the libffi was included. And for the gcc 3.4.2 package (gcc-3.4.2_20040827.tbz), there is a static version library (libffi.a) in the package, but no shared version (libffi.so.*) inside. Maybe we should discuss this with maintianer of gcc ports to include shared version libffi in gcc ports? Regards, Horance