[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#449163: gnustep-base: FTBFS on arm: checking if ffcall trampolines work... no

[Hubert Chathi]

On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:32:51 +0200, Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> said:

> Unfortunately the package failed to build on arm, which blocks the
> whole GNUstep transition:

> [...]
> checking FFI library usage... ffcall
> checking if ffcall trampolines work... no
> none
>
> You have ffcall, but it does not work properly.
> [...]
> configure: error: Incomplete support for ffi functionality.
> make: *** [debian/configure-stamp] Error 1
> [...]

[...]

Thanks for pointing that out.

I've been thinking a bit about ffcall.  It seems like ffcall has
troubles running on SELinux, and it seems like some people are trying to
push for having SELinux enabled by default in Debian.  ffcall is also
only used in Debian by GNUstep, and one ocaml library.

So I'm thinking of switching GNUstep from ffcall to libffi (which is
part of the GCC sources, so I'm guessing would be better maintained than
ffcall, which hasn't been updated for a long time).  What does everyone
think about this?

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