On Apr 10 04:06, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > libffi development moved out of GCC into a separate project a long > time ago; the copy included in GCC is used for libgcj, but only as a > convenience (static) library, and it is usually a few point releases > behind the standalone version. Finally, last month, GCC was patched > upstream to stop installing its copy (a similar patch for 4.7.2 and > 4.8.0 is in Ports git). > > Therefore I think the time has arrived to join Fedora and Debian and > switch i686 to the standalone version. (We are already using this > for x86_64.) This will also simplify building many of the ~20 > packages which use libffi and expect the .pc file provided only by > the standalone version. > > http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/libffi > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/temp/libffi/
Isn't that independent from what gcc itself does? If so, feel free to upload. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat