Review request: Zero assembler port

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/7/16 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
> Gary Benson wrote:
>> Zero uses one external library, libffi, for JNI method invocation.
>> The following two variables are used to tell the compiler and linker
>> how to find libffi.  These can be set by the user, but if left unset
>> then jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh will attempt to set them using
>> pkg-config:
>>
>>   LIBFFI_CFLAGS
>>     Flags to be passed to the C++ compiler to build against libffi.
>>
>>   LIBFFI_LIBS
>>     Flags to be passed to the linker to link against libffi.
>
> It turns out that Gentoo builds libffi without the pkg-config stuff.
> The following webrev has a modified jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh
> that adds default values to these two (LIBFFI_CFLAGS="" and
> LIBFFI_LIBS="-lffi") to work with Gentoo (and any other distributions
> that don't pkg-config libffi):
>
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-06/
>

Gentoo users generally build libffi as part of gcc.  I remember
something about it being split out and maintained separately, but not
the whole story.

> Cheers,
> Gary
>
> --
> http://gbenson.net/
>



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Andrew :-)

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