libffi pkgconfig

[Anthony Green]

Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:

> Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
> Can someone have a look at
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
> is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
> above 4,

Somebody is building this from the GCC sources and packaging it up.  I
don't recommend this.  I think you are on the right track with this:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669804

AG



> that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
> of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
> service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
> the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.
>
> Best regards,
> Damian
>
> 2010/12/10 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
>>> 11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
>>> libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
>>> pkgconfig) file included.
>>> I've filed a bug report for that at
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
>>> include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?
>>
>> libffi.pc comes with libffi and will get installed with make install.
>> It should be part of their libffi-devel package.
>>
>> AG
>>