libffi pkgconfig

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/06/2011 06:43 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 08:33 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
>> 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, 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
>
> In my experience, the distributions that lack .pc file for libffi, are
> propably building the libffi from gcc's sources instead of this separate
> project.
>
> If that's the case, they should move from the gcc's libffi to this one.

Perhaps we should merge gcc's libffi again.

Andrew.