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Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum) wrote : Re: [Bug 288748] [NEW] Make libffi auto-detected by configure

On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Michael D. Adams wrote:

> Presently --enable-libffi is off by default and give an error if it is
> turned on and libffi is not found. I prose that there be three modes:
> "yes", "no" and "auto" in the same way that doxygen detection is
> done at
> [1] except that [1] doesn't have an explicit "auto" mode it can
> only be
> handled implicitly.

I agree with this. For now, as I hope to push a new release soon, I
wish to leave ffi to be explicitly enabled, and disabled by default.
I will do this once I make the release.