Re: LibFFI (and popt) in SableVM sources

Stephen Compall <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:48:17 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.vm.sablevm.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 23:01 -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> I recall that Gerrit (aka Master of Cygwin) once showed us how to make
> libffi a convenience library.  This could be made optional and
> autodetected, so that internal libffi was used when no system-wide
> libffi installation was found.   We could do the same with libpopt,
> which is also another small library causing big PITA to our users. [*]

Options --with-libffi and --with-libpopt (a la GCC) that force or fail
(AC_MSG_ERROR) if system versions aren't present would also be useful
for packaging.

-- 
Stephen Compall

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