Is libffi obsolete?

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 06-09-21 à 04:15, Ronald Oussoren a écrit :

>
> On Thursday, September 21, 2006, at 09:45AM, Mark Duling  
> <mark.duling at biola.edu> wrote:
>
>>> The file the port tries to download isn't the maintained copy of
>>> libffi. I've fully integrated the libffi build into the PyObjC build
>>> and we no longer distribute a current standalone copy of libffi.
>>
>>
>>> gcc also provides its own and I see this port more like a potential
>>> source of troubles than anything else.
>>
>> So am I hearing "this port is broke and will never work and should be
>> deleted"?  Or is it more a "wait and see and let it hang around  
>> for awhile
>> more" type of thing.  I hate to have ports in the tree that will  
>> never
>> work because it causes confusion and bugs to be filed.
>
> A port that works from the copy of libffi that is distributed by  
> the PyObjC project is less than optimal. That version does not, and  
> will never, support darwin/x86.  That's nothing that can't be fixed  
> through patches of course ;-)

All I know about ppc/x86 is that gnustep use ffi on ppc and ffcall on  
x86.  I think gcc does not install ffi on x86.

yves