libffi pkgconfig

libffi pkgconfig

[Damian Ivanov]

Hi there,

I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
pkgconfig) file included.
I've filed a bug report for that at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?

Best regards,
Damian

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Anthony Green]

Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
> 11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
> libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
> pkgconfig) file included.
> I've filed a bug report for that at
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
> include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?

libffi.pc comes with libffi and will get installed with make install.
It should be part of their libffi-devel package.

AG

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Damian Ivanov]

Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
Can someone have a look at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
above 4, that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.

Best regards,
Damian

2010/12/10 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
>> 11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
>> libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
>> pkgconfig) file included.
>> I've filed a bug report for that at
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
>> include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?
>
> libffi.pc comes with libffi and will get installed with make install.
> It should be part of their libffi-devel package.
>
> AG
>

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Samuli Suominen]

On 02/06/2011 08:33 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
> Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
> Can someone have a look at
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
> is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
> above 4, that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
> of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
> service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
> the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.
> 
> Best regards,
> Damian

In my experience, the distributions that lack .pc file for libffi, are
propably building the libffi from gcc's sources instead of this separate
project.

If that's the case, they should move from the gcc's libffi to this one.

And that way the .pc will just "be there".

my 2 cents

- Samuli

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Anthony Green]

Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:

> Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
> Can someone have a look at
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
> is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
> above 4,

Somebody is building this from the GCC sources and packaging it up.  I
don't recommend this.  I think you are on the right track with this:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669804

AG



> that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
> of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
> service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
> the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.
>
> Best regards,
> Damian
>
> 2010/12/10 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
>>> 11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
>>> libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
>>> pkgconfig) file included.
>>> I've filed a bug report for that at
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
>>> include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?
>>
>> libffi.pc comes with libffi and will get installed with make install.
>> It should be part of their libffi-devel package.
>>
>> AG
>>

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Damian Ivanov]

2011/2/7 Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com>:
> Yeah, they marked my bug already as WONTFIX.
>
> 2011/2/7 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
>>> Can someone have a look at
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
>>> is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
>>> above 4,
>>
>> Somebody is building this from the GCC sources and packaging it up.  I
>> don't recommend this.  I think you are on the right track with this:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669804
>>
>> AG
>>
>>
>>
>>> that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
>>> of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
>>> service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
>>> the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Damian
>>>
>>> 2010/12/10 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>>>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
>>>>> 11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
>>>>> libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
>>>>> pkgconfig) file included.
>>>>> I've filed a bug report for that at
>>>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
>>>>> include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?
>>>>
>>>> libffi.pc comes with libffi and will get installed with make install.
>>>> It should be part of their libffi-devel package.
>>>>
>>>> AG
>>>>
>>
>

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Damian Ivanov]

Yeah, they marked my bug already as WONTFIX.

2011/2/7 Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com>:
> 2011/2/7 Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com>:
>> Yeah, they marked my bug already as WONTFIX.
>>
>> 2011/2/7 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
>>>> Can someone have a look at
>>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
>>>> is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
>>>> above 4,
>>>
>>> Somebody is building this from the GCC sources and packaging it up.  I
>>> don't recommend this.  I think you are on the right track with this:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669804
>>>
>>> AG
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
>>>> of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
>>>> service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
>>>> the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Damian
>>>>
>>>> 2010/12/10 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>>>>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
>>>>>> 11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
>>>>>> libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
>>>>>> pkgconfig) file included.
>>>>>> I've filed a bug report for that at
>>>>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
>>>>>> include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?
>>>>>
>>>>> libffi.pc comes with libffi and will get installed with make install.
>>>>> It should be part of their libffi-devel package.
>>>>>
>>>>> AG
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Damian Ivanov]

I was using Fedora and it's one of the distro's I recommend. But I
changed to openSUSE exactly because of the same issue: bugs that
should be fixed and are marked as WONTFIX. In this case that all KDE
apps are 1 package (sound mixer panel appler, cd ripper, media
player). Fedora is one of the only distro's doing this mistake. I
would like to use it again. But in particular I need this to be split.
Also I found YaST somewhat useful for setting up apache. Fedora should
maybe also have a build service/ppa. In openSUSE even if they won't
split it up I can install libffi from the build service.
Hope I didn't start a flamewar lol :)

Best regards,
Damian


2011/2/7 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yeah, they marked my bug already as WONTFIX.
>
> In that case I have to recommend Fedora.
>
> AG
>
>
>
>>
>> 2011/2/7 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
>>>> Can someone have a look at
>>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
>>>> is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
>>>> above 4,
>>>
>>> Somebody is building this from the GCC sources and packaging it up.  I
>>> don't recommend this.  I think you are on the right track with this:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669804
>>>
>>> AG
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
>>>> of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
>>>> service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
>>>> the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Damian
>>>>
>>>> 2010/12/10 Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>:
>>>>> Damian Ivanov <damianatorrpm@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a problem compiling wayland, the NG display server on openSUSE
>>>>>> 11.4. The build process fails with the missing libffi message, still
>>>>>> libffi-devel and libffi are installed, but there is no libffi.pc (for
>>>>>> pkgconfig) file included.
>>>>>> I've filed a bug report for that at
>>>>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 . Should the distro
>>>>>> include/generate the .pc file or could you include it?
>>>>>
>>>>> libffi.pc comes with libffi and will get installed with make install.
>>>>> It should be part of their libffi-devel package.
>>>>>
>>>>> AG
>>>>>
>>>
>

Re: libffi pkgconfig

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/06/2011 06:43 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 08:33 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
>> Ok it has been a while but I have one more question to that :)
>> Can someone have a look at
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657789 and tell me if this
>> is the same libffi :D In openSUSE the libffi has a version number
>> above 4, that does not contain libffi.pc (or did not before, because
>> of my bug report they added a file manually for that). In the build
>> service like I menitioned in the bug report I found a libffi that is
>> the right one (3.0.9) with libffi.pc included.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Damian
>
> In my experience, the distributions that lack .pc file for libffi, are
> propably building the libffi from gcc's sources instead of this separate
> project.
>
> If that's the case, they should move from the gcc's libffi to this one.

Perhaps we should merge gcc's libffi again.

Andrew.