Currently, due to the absence of a 64-bit port for Darwin PPC, the libffi suffers massive failures on that architecture at -m64...
=== libffi Summary for unix/-m32 === # of expected passes 1068 # of expected failures 8 # of unsupported tests 8 === libffi Summary for unix/-m64 === # of expected passes 472 # of unexpected failures 384 # of expected failures 8 # of unsupported tests 8 === libffi Summary === # of expected passes 1540 # of unexpected failures 384 # of expected failures 16 # of unsupported tests 16 -- Summary: 64-bit darwin ppc port needed for libffi Product: gcc Version: 4.2.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: libffi AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: howarth at nitro dot med dot uc dot edu GCC build triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8 GCC host triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8 GCC target triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin8 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29152