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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:24:19 +0800
From:      Jov <amutu@amutu.com>
To:        Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org>, linimon@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GNU libffcall 1.13 is released
Message-ID:  <CADyrUxPsuT1e0ArhB6rz6F99P5Tc8h3hcwBm%2BWJUH4W0wL6%2BVQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Bruno,
 Thanks for your work=EF=BC=81I submitted an update PR
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D220250,and add you to t=
he
CC list.

Jov

2017-06-24 19:27 GMT+08:00 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>:

> Hi,
>
> GNU libffcall 1.13 is released. You find the download link at the homepag=
e
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/
>
> New in 1.13:
>
> * The license has been changed from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.
>
> * Added support for the following platforms:
>   (Previously, a build on these platforms failed.)
>   - x86_64: Mac OS X 64-bit.
>   - x86_64: Solaris 64-bit.
>   - x86_64: Linux with x32 ABI: CC=3D"gcc -mx32".
>   - arm: Linux 32-bit, without hardware floats.
>   - arm64: Linux 64-bit.
>   - s390x: Linux 64-bit.
>   - powerpc: AIX 64-bit.
>   - mips: IRIX 6.5 with CC=3D"cc -32".
>   - sparc: Solaris 64-bit.
>
> * Fixed support for the following platforms:
>   (Previously, a build on these platforms appeared to succeed but was
> buggy.)
>   - x86_64: Linux.
>   - arm: Linux 32-bit, with hardware floats.
>   - powerpc: Linux 64-bit.
>   - mips: Linux with CC=3D"gcc -mabi=3D32".
>   - mips: Linux with CC=3D"gcc -mabi=3Dn32".
>   - mips: Linux with CC=3D"gcc -mabi=3D64".
>   - mips: IRIX 6.5 with CC=3D"gcc -mabi=3Dn32".
>   - s390: Linux.
>   - sparc: Linux 64-bit.
>   - ia64: Linux.
>   - hppa: HP-UX 32-bit.
>
> * Verified support for the following platforms:
>   (A build on these platforms worked and still works.)
>   - i386: Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X.
>   - powerpc: Linux 32-bit.
>   - powerpc: AIX 32-bit.
>   - powerpc: MacOS X.
>   - mips: IRIX 6.5 with CC=3D"cc -n32".
>   - sparc: Solaris 32-bit.
>   - sparc: Linux 32-bit: CC=3D"gcc -m32".
>   - alpha: Linux.
>
> * Support for a security feature: On Linux and FreeBSD platforms, linking
> with
>   the libffcall libraries no longer causes the stack to become executable=
.
>
>
> According to [1][2], you are packaging libffcall for FreeBSD.
>
> I invite you to upgrade to version 1.13.
> With it, you can remove the BROKEN_* lines from [2].
> Also, you will no longer need patch-avcall_avcall-sparc64.S [3].
>
> NOTE! Libffcall is usually packaged as a non-shared library. If so, you
> need
> to rebuild the packages that depend on it (in particular, GNU clisp).
>
> Best regards,
>
>            Bruno
>
> [1] http://www.freshports.org/devel/ffcall
> [2] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/ffcall/
> Makefile?revision=3D439720&view=3Dmarkup
> [3] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/ffcall/files/
>
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