[issue12081] Remove distributed copy of libffi

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Closing as a duplicate. The original issue is resolved: we are not distributing an old copy of libffi anymore. -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> libffi-3.0.11 update ___ Python tra

[issue12081] Remove distributed copy of libffi

Meador Inge added the comment: Matthias recently updated libffi to 3.0.11 (issue15194). It would seem that we intend to keep a local copy of the libffi sources for now and that this issue can be closed. Does anyone see a reason to keep this open? --

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Matthias Klose added the comment: The last time I merged libffi, we were not able to build the MacOS X and Windows libffi from the upstream sources, but used the internal copy of the copy. Now that libffi 3.0.11 is released, we could - update to this new version, see if the MacOS X and Windo

[issue12081] Remove distributed copy of libffi

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Arfrever: I doubt anybody has contributed patches back, or that anybody is interested in doing so. I personally don't see a problem in using an old libffi version, so I fail to see Benjamin's issue. Figuring out how exactly to use the system libffi is more

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't think we have ever "supported" WinCE (which is apparently named "Windows Embedded Compact 7" nowadays). It only provides a subset of the Win32 API so the current tree may not even compile. -- nosy: +brian.curtin, loewis, pitrou __

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Ross Lagerwall added the comment: In any case, it should be OK to remove libffi_arm_wince? Is WinCE supported? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Matthias Klose added the comment: iirc after merging 3.0.9, we still had to use the internal libffi bits for windows and macosx. I didn't check 3.0.10rc8 -- nosy: +doko ___ Python tracker

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: Has the patch been sent to libffi upstream? What was the response from libffi upstream? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Roumen Petrov added the comment: On windows work with patched version of library . Unpatched does not work but I cannot remember python issue number. -- nosy: +rpetrov ___ Python tracker _

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Georg Brandl added the comment: Sounds reasonable. How will this work on Windows? -- nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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New submission from Benjamin Peterson : I believe the bugs which the patched version of libffi used have been fixed in recent versions. We should stop distributing an old version. -- components: ctypes messages: 136034 nosy: benjamin.peterson priority: normal severity: normal status: op