Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Libffi and install-sh & friends are "identifiable sections", "not
derived from the Program" ('the Program' meaning any work available only
under the GPL), "can be reasonably considered independent and separate
works in themselves", and so they can be distributed as separate works.
OK.
Try this.
mkdir build
cd build
../gcc-3.3.2/libffi/configure
make
OK. This works. :-) It would be a good idea to put a little note about it
in the libffi directory. It is not obvious to a newby to know that this
unusual build mechanism does not only apply to gcc itself (documented in
gcc-3.2.2/INSTALL/).
You may close this bug.
Thanks a lot for answering my questions and concerns.
Etienne
PS: I might still file a different bug about the source package; it is not very
convenient to have to download all of GCC's sources (megabytes and megabytes
of data) just for looking at libbffi's sources (few kilobytes).
--
Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/
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