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Re: Libffi merge [Was Re: [patch] powerpc libffi Net/FreeBSD ]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Anthony Green wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Questions for Anthony Green:
>>>
>>> 1.  I don't understand the libffi version numbers.  Can you give
>>> me any explanations?  It seems to be 3.0.8 upstream but 2.1 in gcc,
>>> but this doesn't seem in any way to correspond with reality.
>>>   
>> Configury like this just hasn't been merged back into GCC.   The version
>> number in GCC is mostly irrelevant as GCC doesn't install libffi; it is
>> simply incorporated in its entirety into libgcj.   
> 
>   It may not be supposed to, but GCC HEAD currently does (for me at any rate)
> install $prefix/lib/libffi.{la,a}.

Yes, I agree.  Installing libffi is deliberate.

Andrew.
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