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

[Hubert Chathi]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:33:08 +0200, Yavor Doganov <y.doganov at southway-varna.com> said:

> 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

OK, thanks for finding these.  Based on this, it's probably best to just
stick with ffcall for now, until we really need to switch to libffi (if
we ever need to).

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