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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
| On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun     , Samuli Suominen wrote:
|> # Samuli Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (05 Jun 2008)
|> # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners.
|> # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724.
|> dev-libs/libffi
|> dev-lang/squeak
|> x11-libs/gtk-server
|
| The latest version of g-wrap (1.9.11) requires the external libffi
| released a month or two ago, because it looks for the pkgconfig file
| installed by that and not gcc:
|
|     - libffi is no longer distributed with g-wrap, as it is available
|       as a stand-alone package now (instead of being burried in the
|       GCC sources).
|
| Thoughts?

I think we should use this unbundled libffi in favor of the one that will 
continue to be
bundled with gcc. A normal dep is nicer than a use dep on gcc with libffi for 
one. I don't
see any reason why this ``new'' libffi should become unmaintained again soon.

Marijn

Relevant bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163724

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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML
<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode
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