ports/70528: No libffi on amd64, either with native compiler or from ports

[Pete French]

The following reply was made to PR ports/70528; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pete French <pete at twisted.org.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, horance at freera.net,
	kris at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/70528: No libffi on amd64, either with native compiler or from ports
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:40:55 +0000

 > I've reply to kris@ for this pr. The "libffi" is now part of gcc and no
 > longer maintained, therefor it will not support new platform like IA64,
 > AMD64, etc. For more detail information, please check
 
 Do you mean that the port is not maintained (which I know) or that the libffi
 which is part of gcc is not being maintained by the gcc people ?
 
 I though that having libffi as part of gcc meant that it was maintained
 along with gcc and would be installed on any system gcc was on. But I
 can't find a way to get it installed onto FreeBSD 5 at all.
 
 -pete.