21 Nov
2011
21 Nov
'11
4:45 p.m.
David> I'm glad it works for you. When I tested it with Debian and David> Ubuntu I had to install the development packages but otherwise it David> went smoothly. I'm considering adding libffi to the poly source David> since it's licensed under the BSD licence.
I understand the appeal of this solution, but at least on Debian it is seriously frowned upon. The maintainer of the Debian package would probably have to undo it and use the pkg-config interface anyway to get the package accepted.
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