On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:43:45PM -0800, Josh Elsasser wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 07:37:56PM -0500, James Turner wrote:
> > Joshua (and ports@),
> > 
> > With the attached diff I am able to build and use clisp on mips64el
> > (loongson). However, I had to disable ffi support in order to achieve
> > this.
> > 
> > I have ran into one problem where I could use some guidance on how best
> > to move forward. Because ffi support has to be disabled, readline support
> > is also disabled. Due to this, 2 files have to be removed from
> > pkg/PLIST: lib/clisp/base/readline.o and lib/clisp/full/readline.o in
> > order for clisp to package correctly.
> > 
> > What is the best way to handle this on mips64el since these files should
> > be there for the other supported platforms? Should I create a no_ffi
> > flavor and make mips64el use that by default? Suggestions welcome.
> > Thanks.
> 
> I would prefer to see ffcall fixed on mips64el, as painful as that
> might be.
> 

Understandable. I'll take a look at ffcall. A package is provided for
mips64el, but for whatever reason, avcall.h isn't usable according to
clisp's configure script even though at the end it says it will build
ffi support, but fails during the make process.

-- 
James Turner | 0x560B0C49

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