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Re: [patch] [libffi] do not install libffi library, headers and documentation


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Richard Biener
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> The libffi library, headers and documentation are still installed, although
>> libffi provides separate releases for a long time.  So do not install these
>> anymore as part of a GCC install.  Tested with a build and an install with go
>> and java enabled (both using libffi_convenience). Ok for the trunk?
>
> openSUSE is using the GCC provided libffi, so no, this is not ok (not at this
> stage anyway).  Also proper not-installing libffi would work by disabling
> the maybe-install-target-libffi at the toplevel, not changing libffi makfiles
> (which are supposed to be imported from upstream, no?)

Thus, add no_install= true; to the libffi target module

> Richard.
>
>>   Matthias
>>


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