GNU libffcall 1.13 is released

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

GNU libffcall 1.13 is released. You find the download link at the homepage
https://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/

New in 1.13:

* The license has been changed from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.

* Added support for the following platforms:
  (Previously, a build on these platforms failed.)
  - x86_64: Mac OS X 64-bit.
  - x86_64: Solaris 64-bit.
  - x86_64: Linux with x32 ABI: CC="gcc -mx32".
  - arm: Linux 32-bit, without hardware floats.
  - arm64: Linux 64-bit.
  - s390x: Linux 64-bit.
  - powerpc: AIX 64-bit.
  - mips: IRIX 6.5 with CC="cc -32".
  - sparc: Solaris 64-bit.

* Fixed support for the following platforms:
  (Previously, a build on these platforms appeared to succeed but was buggy.)
  - x86_64: Linux.
  - arm: Linux 32-bit, with hardware floats.
  - powerpc: Linux 64-bit.
  - mips: Linux with CC="gcc -mabi=32".
  - mips: Linux with CC="gcc -mabi=n32".
  - mips: Linux with CC="gcc -mabi=64".
  - mips: IRIX 6.5 with CC="gcc -mabi=n32".
  - s390: Linux.
  - sparc: Linux 64-bit.
  - ia64: Linux.
  - hppa: HP-UX 32-bit.

* Verified support for the following platforms:
  (A build on these platforms worked and still works.)
  - i386: Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X.
  - powerpc: Linux 32-bit.
  - powerpc: AIX 32-bit.
  - powerpc: MacOS X.
  - mips: IRIX 6.5 with CC="cc -n32".
  - sparc: Solaris 32-bit.
  - sparc: Linux 32-bit: CC="gcc -m32".
  - alpha: Linux.

* Support for a security feature: On Linux and FreeBSD platforms, linking with
  the libffcall libraries no longer causes the stack to become executable.


According to [1][2], you are packaging libffcall for FreeBSD.

I invite you to upgrade to version 1.13.
With it, you can remove the BROKEN_* lines from [2].
Also, you will no longer need patch-avcall_avcall-sparc64.S [3].

NOTE! Libffcall is usually packaged as a non-shared library. If so, you need
to rebuild the packages that depend on it (in particular, GNU clisp).

Best regards,

   Bruno

[1] http://www.freshports.org/devel/ffcall
[2] 
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/ffcall/Makefile?revision=439720&view=markup
[3] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/ffcall/files/

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GNU libffcall 2.0 is released

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

GNU libffcall 2.0 is released. You find the download link at the homepage
https://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/

New in 2.0:

* The package now installs a library libffcall.{a,so}. It contains the
  'avcall' and 'callback' packages. The libraries libavcall.{a,so} and
  libcallback.{a,so} are still installed as well, but are deprecated.

* The installed libraries are now installed as shared libraries by default
  (except for libvacall, which is still a static library only).

* The installed shared libraries are now properly versioned. This means that
  when installing with --enable-shared, upgrading to a newer version of
  libffcall will not break existing binaries.

* The installed include files are now platform independent. This means that
  you can now install libffcall for different ABIs on the same system, using
  the same --prefix option but different --exec-prefix options for each ABI.

* API changes in :
  - The second argument of alloc_trampoline() is now a 'void**', rather
than a 'void*'.
  - The return value of trampoline_variable() is now a 'void**', rather
than a 'void*'.
  - The argument of trampoline_address(), trampoline_variable(),
trampoline_data() is now a function pointer instead of a 'void*'.

* Fixed a bug regarding floating-point arguments followed by
  non-floating-point arguments on the following platforms:
  - arm: Linux 32-bit, with hardware floats.
  - powerpc: Linux 32-bit.
  - s390: Linux.

* Fixed a bug regarding structure returns on the following platforms:
  - i386: FreeBSD.
  - i386: MinGW.
  - mips: old 32-bit ABI (Linux, IRIX).

* Added support for the following platforms:
  (Previously, a build on these platforms failed.)
  - i386: MSVC 14.
  - x86_64: Cygwin.
  - x86_64: MinGW.
  - x86_64: MSVC 14.
  - hppa64: HP-UX 11.
  - m68k: Linux.



According to [1][2], you are packaging libffcall for FreeBSD.

I invite you to upgrade to version 2.0.
Also, please note that the homepage URL now is 
https://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/

NOTE! Libffcall was previously usually packaged as a non-shared library. If so,
you need to rebuild the packages that depend on it (in particular, GNU clisp).

Best regards,

   Bruno

[1] http://www.freshports.org/devel/libffcall
[2] 
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/libffcall/Makefile?revision=446847&view=markup

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