For what it's worth, this patch is fine by me. I had originally proposed that GCC not install these bits.
As far as maintainers go, I thought that I was once listed in the MAINTAINERS file. Feel free to add Andrew Haley and/or myself. Thanks, Anthony Green On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> [ping, adding the GCJ and Go maintainers] >> >> proposed patch at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-02/msg00853.html > > As far as I know this won't affect Go. So it's fine with me. But I'd > rather see this approved by a libffi maintainer. But there is no > libffi maintainer listed in MAINTAINERS. Hmmm. > > Ian > > >> Am 19.02.2013 10:13, schrieb Richard Biener: >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>>> Am 12.02.2013 13:45, schrieb Richard Biener: >>>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Richard Biener >>>>> <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>>>>>> The libffi library, headers and documentation are still installed, >>>>>>> although >>>>>>> libffi provides separate releases for a long time. So do not install >>>>>>> these >>>>>>> anymore as part of a GCC install. Tested with a build and an install >>>>>>> with go >>>>>>> and java enabled (both using libffi_convenience). Ok for the trunk? >>>>>> >>>>>> openSUSE is using the GCC provided libffi, so no, this is not ok (not at >>>>>> this >>>>>> stage anyway). Also proper not-installing libffi would work by disabling >>>>>> the maybe-install-target-libffi at the toplevel, not changing libffi >>>>>> makfiles >>>>>> (which are supposed to be imported from upstream, no?) >>>>> >>>>> Thus, add no_install= true; to the libffi target module >>>> >>>> updated patch attached, checked with a make install that no ffi headers and >>>> libraries are installed. If not ok for 4.8, ok for 4.9 when it opens? >>> >>> I'm fine with that variant but I'd like to see another ok. No preference >>> as to >>> whether to target 4.8 or 4.9. >>> >>> Richard. >>> >>>> Matthias >>>> >>
