[issue12812] libffi does not build with clang on amd64

New submission from Joel : tl;dr libffi needs to be updated so Python will build with clang on Linux on amd64 libffi, part of ctypes, has a test for PC relative relocations. It assembles a assembler file with CC, and looks for the string "warning" in the output. clang produces harmless warnin

[issue12812] libffi does not build with clang on amd64

koobs added the comment: This is also an issue for clang builds of Python on FreeBSD and results in the _ctypes extension failing to compile (See: koobs-freebsd-clang buildbot) The original mozilla patch (see References below) did not make it into the libffi 3.0.11 release, which has already b

[issue12812] libffi does not build with clang on amd64

koobs added the comment: Correction, the PR mentioned in the previous comment has been submitted for devel/libffi in the FreeBSD ports tree (update from 3.0.9 -> 3.0.11), not lang/python27 -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue12812] libffi does not build with clang on amd64

Stefan Krah added the comment: This is a duplicate of #11729, which is fixed. -- nosy: +skrah resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> libffi assembler relocation check is not robust, fails with clang type: -> compile error ___