On 12/18/2011 06:24 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > We've been having some problems that arise from conflicts between the > "system" version of libffi and the one installed by GCC when > --enable-languages=java is used. Packages are erroneously getting linked to > the GCC version and then breaking when the user rebuilds without java. I've > seen some vague references that libffi is actually linked statically with gcj > which makes me think we could simply not install the internal libs and > headers. But after digging through the code and build logs I can't find any > evidence that this is the case. We use a libffi "convenience library" in gcj. See http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_74.html So yes, gcj doesn't use the system libffi. This might change one day. Andrew.
