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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2010-02-17 00:44:56 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2010-02-17 00:44:56 +0100
commit127f5c624d16f33da72a56e75a38912e06346113 (patch)
tree4924b74de96a2e9f134ba6e1f1d8296e2f2a1b25 /README
parentf353687c688d20c9e8f42383d7f2e820a8834159 (diff)
Mention libffi dependency in `README'.
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@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Guile depends on the following external libraries.
- libltdl
- libunistring
- libgc
+- libffi
It will also use the libreadline library if it is available. For each
of these there is a corresponding --with-XXX-prefix option that you
can use when invoking ./configure, if you have these libraries
@@ -91,6 +92,12 @@ Guile requires the following external packages:
conservative garbage collector used by Guile. It is available
from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ .
+ - libffi
+
+ libffi provides a "foreign function interface", used by the
+ `(system foreign)' module. It is available from
+ http://sourceware.org/libffi/ .
+
- pkg-config
Guile's ./configure script uses pkg-config to discover the correct