Re: libffi, python25, and PowerPC (and perhaps others)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:56:36PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> Should CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-system-ffi and .include  
> "../../devel/libffi/buildlink3.mk" be conditional in python25 so that  
> architectures on which libffi doesn't work can still run python25? What's 
> the downside?

The package is incomplete otherwise. Try building it with
PKG_DEVELOPER=yes. As in: it was broken before, just that noone cared.

Joerg