Re: GLib: libffi dependency

[Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans gmail com>]

2011/5/6 David Zeuthen <zeuthen gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans gmail com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to make that an optional dependency? e.g. --with-libffi
>> or --enable-gdbus-codegen
>
> No, this dependency is part of the ABI, the newly added
> g_cclosure_marshal_generic() function will not work without libffi. I
> think a better question would be "why did it take us so long to add
> this?".

Fair enough, I'll look into packaging libffi then. (Working on mingw
cross compiled packages on the OpenSUSE BuildService)

It would be nice to mention it in the release announcement when the
new stable glib comes out, for the benefit of packagers.

>    David

Maarten