Changeset 8dbae30

Timestamp:

12/13/2018 12:05:54 AM (5 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

f7cea72

Parents:

2e653fe

Message:

Add a note to libffi about portability.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11494 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/libffi.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general.ent (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -44 +44 @@
 -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>2018-12-12</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Add a note to libffi about optimizing for the
+          specific CPU in use at compile time. Similar to GMP, this causes
+          Illegal Operation errors if the installation is moved to another
+          system.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>2018-12-11</para>
       <itemizedlist>

chapter06/libffi.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Libffi</title>
+
+    <note>
+      <para>Similar to GMP, libffi builds with optimizations specific
+      to the proccesor in use. If building for another system, export
+      CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to specify a generic build for your architecture.
+      If this is not done, all applications that link to libffi will trigger
+      Illegal Operation Errors.</para>
+    </note>
 
     <para>Modify the Makefile to install headers into the standard

general.ent

@@ -1 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20181211">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20181212">
 <!ENTITY short-version   "svn">  <!-- Used below in &blfs-book; 
                                       Change to x.y for release but not -rc releases -->
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development"  or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
-<!ENTITY versiond        "20181211-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20181212-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "December 11, 2018">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "December 12, 2018">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2018"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->