Re: Making Packages

[Adam Fedor]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:

> Anyother problem I ran into, which I didn't the first time around, is 
> that I'm trying to install libffi but can't find where to get it!  If 
> I'm not mistaken last time I used ffcall, but since libffi is now part 
> of GCC I figured it would be better to use that.  Appearantly 
> Slackware doesn't ship with libffi and I can't figure out where it is 
> on the GCC tree.
If you download the source for gcc, it should be in there.  
Unfortunately it is not distributed separately.  Here's how you can 
compile it:

     mkdir libffi-build
     cd libffi-build
     <gcc install dir>/libffi/configure [CC=<gcc install dir>/bin/gcc]
     make
     make install