Changeset 8dbae30 for chapter06/libffi.xml

Timestamp:

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

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

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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

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• chapter06/libffi.xml (modified) (1 diff)

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