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Re: ffcall vs libffi support
From: |
Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: ffcall vs libffi support |
Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2015 13:43:52 +0100 |
On 25 May 2015, at 13:39, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> while libffi is preferred on most platforms, we continue(d) to support
> ffcall. I use it for example on windows.
>
> To do that, I used --enable-ffcall, which is still listed in the help .
>
> I tried to reconfigure base:
> ...
> checking use of fake-main definition... no
> checking ffi.h usability... no
> checking ffi.h presence... no
> checking for ffi.h... no
> checking callback.h usability... yes
> checking callback.h presence... yes
> checking for callback.h... yes
> configure: WARNING: ffi support seems to be missing on this system ... please
> in
> stall a recent libffi
> checking for forwarding callback in runtime... yes
> checking FFI library usage... none
>
> did we we remove the support? or is something else broken?
> I did not see any particular commit in base's configure that would break this.
I think ffcall is pretty much obsolete, but I don't recall intentionally
removing support ... possibly I accidentally messed something up in a change of
configure.ac for some other purpose?