Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.3.6 for x86 stable

[Armando Di Cianno <fafhrd@gentoo.org>]

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On 2005-09-02 12:05:38 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Friday 02 September 2005 11:50 am, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> any known/standing issues people wish to get out before we move 
>>> gcc-3.3.6
>>> to x86 stable ?
>> 
>> You'll also need a matching dev-libs/libffi, otherwise it'll go all
>> circular for people using GNUstep.
> 
> toolchain doesnt maintain libffi, the gnustep peeps do ...
> -mike

The gnustep herd (me) isn't going to be able to do much until the
weekend...hey, the weekend starts in about 4 hours for me ...

I've been trying to phase out dev-libs/libffi for a long while...if
someone can figure out a patch for gcc-3.3 series that compiles and
installs libffi w/o building the entirety of gjc/java/etc, that would
be fantastic; gcc-3.4 series has had this for a long time, and the
patch is incredibly simple -- my one attempt at doing this for gcc-3.3
series proved fruitless.  (The little bit of monkeying I've done with
gcc-4 series has proved easy wrt to this.)

'objc' USE flag pushes the patch on, so one can have USE="-gcj +objc"
... if I, or someone else who knows GCC innards better than I, figures
out the patch for gcc-3.3, I'd suggest adding a 'libffi' USE flag (so
the 'objc' flag goes back to just enabling ObjC), so the few misc.
ebuilds that use it besides GNUstep (sablevm comes to mind), can
enable libffi to be built (w/o gcj or even objc).

__armando di cianno
aka fafhrd

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