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

[Yavor Doganov]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> 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?

I don't have an opinion, as I'm not familiar with both.  GNUstep Base's 
configure.ac prefers ffcall, but that doesn't indicate much, I guess.

While searching for more information about this issue, I found these bug 
reports which might be worth reading/investigating:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?13509
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?14766

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